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ID: 7004529
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004529
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Capua (inhabited place)  Capua (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 014 12 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 14.2000  decimal degrees

Note: Founded 856 CE on site of ancient Casilinum; captured 1501 by Cesare Borgia; was one of the fortified defenses of the Kingdom of Naples; fell to Kingdom of Italy in 1860; scene of heavy fighting in World War II (October 1943).

Names:
Capua (preferred,C,V)
Casilinum (H,V,S)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Campania (region (administrative division))  ............  Campania (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Caserta (province)  ................  Caserta (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Capua (inhabited place)  ....................  Capua (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  an important road junction in Roman times; modern Capua was founded on this site in 856 CE
town (C)
fortified settlement (H)
Ancient Roman (H)

Related geographic places:
moved from ....  Santa Maria Capua Vetere .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Europe, Italy, Campania, Caserta province) [7004531]

Sources and Contributors:
Capua..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 39
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 219
Casilinum..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 837
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 837
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -113243
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 39
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 219
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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