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ID: 7006207
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006207
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Viareggio (inhabited place)  Viareggio (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 52 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 010 14 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.2333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Ligurian Sea; Lucca constructed a wharf and fortification here in the 12th century; houses had been constricted in the area by the second half of the 15th century; was a commercial center by the late 16th century; developed as a spa center in the 19th century.

Names:
Viareggio (preferred,C,V)  ............ name is derived from the location of the early fortification along the Via Reggio (road)
Motrone (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 Tuscany (region (administrative division))  ............  Tuscany (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of new kingdom of Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Lucca (province)  ................  Lucca (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Viareggio (inhabited place)  ....................  Viareggio (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  city of Lucca built a fortification here in 12th cen., village grew up around it in 15th cen.
city (C)
port (C)
resort center (C)
tourist center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Motrone..........  [VP]
.................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 166
Viareggio..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
....................  Annuario Generale (1980)
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 992
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 166 ff.
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 209
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 992
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 13 February 2007
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -132191
..................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 166; 166 ff.
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 209
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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