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ID: 7008314
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008314
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Elea (deserted settlement)  Elea (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 015 09 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.1500  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient town of Lucania, 25 miles SE of Pesto; founded ca. 535 BCE by Greeks from Phocis; home of Eleatic school & philosophers Zeno and Parmenides; became ally of Rome 275 BCE; abandoned in Middle Ages due to Arab raids; part of an UNESCO World Heritage Site with Parco Nazionale Cilente-Vallo di Diano, Pesto, and Certosa di San Lorenzo.

Names:
Elea (preferred,C,V)
Castellammare di Velia (C,V)
Hyele (H,V)
Velia (H,V)
Bellias (H,V)
Ἐλέα (H,V,Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Campania (region (administrative division))  ............  Campania (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Salerno (province)  ................  Salerno (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Elea (deserted settlement)  ....................  Elea (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 6th cen. BC, deserted in Middle Ages
ruins (C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)
World Heritage Site (C)  ............  from 1998

Sources and Contributors:
Ἐλέα..........  [VP]
...........  Pleiades (2006-) accessed 9 March 2020
Bellias..........  [VP]
.................  Pleiades (2006-) accessed 9 March 2020
Castellammare di Velia..........  [VP]
.........................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Elea..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Hyele..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 271
Velia..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..............  TCI: Campania (1963)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 271
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -131965
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  TCI: Campania (1963)
..................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 20 July 2010
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 20 July 2010

 

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