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ID: 7004103
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004103
Record Type:
administrative
Altamura (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 49 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.8167
decimal degrees
Long: 016 33 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
Named for high medieval walls (alta mura) that surround city; Frederick II pursuaded Jews & Saracens here with grants of favors in exchange for aid in struggle against barons 13th cen.; economy based of wool, almonds & wine.
Names:
Altamura
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Puglia
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Bari
(province) (
P
)
....................
Altamura
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded ca. 1200 by Frederick II
town (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Altamura..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 298
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
TCI: Puglia (1978)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
11
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 298
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-110283
..................
TCI: Puglia (1978)
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
11
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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