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ID: 1046533
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1046533
Record Type:
administrative
San Giovanni Rotondo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 42 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.7000
decimal degrees
Long: 015 44 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 15.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Said to have been built on ruined temple of Jupiter & derives its name from an ancient circular baptistery (rotundus); site of 13th-cen. church of Sant'Onofrio, a large hospital for sick pilgrims; is a bauxite-mining center.
Names:
San Giovanni Rotondo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Giovanni Rotondo
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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Italia
(nation) (
P
)
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Puglia
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Foggia
(province) (
P
)
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San Giovanni Rotondo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
pilgrimage center (
C
)
............
since WW II, when town became famous for pilgrimages made in honor of the stigmatic Padre Pio da Pietrelcina
agricultural center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Giovanni Rotondo..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
San Giovanni Rotondo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 389
...................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
171
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 389
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-127664
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
171
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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