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ID: 7010092
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010092
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Metaponto (inhabited place)  Metaponto (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 22 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 016 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Small town on the site of an ancient city of Magna Graecia; settled by Greek colonists from Crotone & Sybaris ca. 700 BCE; Pythagoras died here 497 BCE; headquarters of Hannibal after battle of Cannae 216 BCE; modern town has developed adjacent to the ruins.

Names:
Metaponto (preferred,C,V)
Métabos (H,V)
Metapontion (H,V)  ............ ancient
Metapontum (H,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 Basilicata (region (administrative division))  ............  Basilicata (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Matera (province)  ................  Matera (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Metaponto (inhabited place)  ....................  Metaponto (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled by Greek colonists ca. 700 BC
town (C)
agricultural center (C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  noted for ruins of 2 temples & walls

Sources and Contributors:
Métabos..........  [VP]
.................  TCI: Basilicata Calabria (1980) 340 ff.
Metapontion..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9372
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Metaponto..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
....................  Annuario Generale (1980)
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
....................  TCI: Basilicata Calabria (1980) 340 ff.
....................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 124
Metapontum..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442658
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9372
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -121630
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  TCI: Basilicata Calabria (1980) 340 ff.
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 124
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites [online] (2000-)

 

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