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ID: 7007534
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007534
Record Type:
administrative
Ascoli Satriano (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 12 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 015 34 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 15.5667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on E slope of Apennines; site of battle in 279 BC, in which Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, defeated the Romans; Pyrrhus' losses were so great, that the term "Pyrrhic victory" was coined to describe a costly victory.
Names:
Ascoli Satriano
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Apulum
(
H
,
V
)
Ausculum
(
H
,
V
)
Ausculum Apulum
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Apulia
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Foggia
(province) (
P
)
....................
Ascoli Satriano
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Faragola
.......... (deserted settlement)
..............................
(World, Europe, Italy, Apulia, Foggia province) [7902218]
Sources and Contributors:
Apulum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 52
Ascoli Satriano..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 52
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
TCI: Puglia (1986)
197
.............................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
16
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
81
Ausculum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Ausculum Apulum..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 52
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-110791
..................
TCI: Puglia (1986)
197
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
16
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
81
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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