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ID: 7004102
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004102
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Foggia (inhabited place)  Foggia (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 015 34 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.5667  decimal degrees

Note: Located in center of Puglia Tableland; seat of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II 13th cen.; center for collection of sheep tax 1447-1806; site of Carbonari rebellions against King of Naples 19th cen.; damaged in earthquake of 1751 & during WW II.

Names:
Foggia (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Puglia (region (administrative division))  ............  Puglia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Foggia (province)  ................  Foggia (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Foggia (inhabited place)  ....................  Foggia (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  believed to have been founded by inhabitants of nearby town of Arpi, which declined after Second Punic War (3rd cen BC)
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
market center (C)  ............  noted for its centuries-old wool trade
agricultural center (C)  ............  cultivates wheat, vegetables, olives, grapes & tobacco

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Arpi .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Europe, Italia, Puglia, Foggia province) [6000413]

Sources and Contributors:
Foggia..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 298
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 858
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 66
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 298
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 858
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -117638
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 66
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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