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ID: 7018769
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018769
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ereğli (inhabited place)  Ereğli (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 034 02 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 34.0333  decimal degrees

Note: Town at foot of the Taurus Mountains; an important frontier fortification of the Byzantine Empire, guarding the Cilician Gates (the major pass through the mountains); captured by Arabs in 806 & again in 832; went to Seljuq Turks (11th c.) then Mongols.

Names:
Ereğli (preferred,C,V)
Eregli (C,V)
Heraclea (H,V)
Heracleia ad Latmus (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Konya (province)  ............  Konya (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Ereğli (inhabited place)  ................  Ereğli (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, B)  ............  inhabited since ancient times; fortified by Byzantines
town (C)
fortified settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Eregli..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 278
.................  USBGN: Turkey (1984) 655
Ereğli..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 538
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 63
Heraclea..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 278
Heracleia ad Latmus..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
...................................  Bean, Aegean Turkey (1966) 211
...................................  USBGN: Turkey (1984) 655
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Bean, Aegean Turkey (1966) 211
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 278
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 538
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 63
..................  USBGN: Turkey (1984) 655
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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