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ID: 7004135
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004135
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Oria (inhabited place)  Oria (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 017 38 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 17.6333  decimal degrees

Elevation:
272.309  feet    83.0000  meters

Note: One of the most important Messapic cities according to Herodotos; besieged & taken by Hannibal; conquered by Goths, Byzantines, Lombards (569 CE), & by Ludovico II (867); noted for burial chambers & Greek ceramic ware.

Names:
Oria (preferred,C,V)
Hyria (H,V)
Uria (H,V)
Orra (H,V)
Ὑρία (C,V,Greek,U)
Οὐρία (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Apulia (region (administrative division))  ............  Apulia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Brindisi (province)  ................  Brindisi (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Oria (inhabited place)  ....................  Oria (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by colonists from Crete on the site of an ancient Messapian city
town (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ὑρία..........  [VP]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Οὐρία..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Hyria..........  [VP]
..............  TCI: Puglia (1978) 342
Oria..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Annuario Generale (1980)
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 948
...........  TCI: Puglia (1978) 342
...........  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 143
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Orra..........  [VP]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Uria..........  [VP]
...........  TCI: Puglia (1978) 342
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -123398
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 948
..................  TCI: Puglia (1978) 342
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 143
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)

 

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