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ID: 7018649
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018649
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Erétria (inhabited place)  Erétria (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 023 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Was an important city of ancient Greece; founded by Ionians, was destroyed by Persians in 490 BCE in revenge for its having assisted the Ionian Greek revolt; again destroyed by Romans in 198 BCE; the settlement was rebuilt, but on a smaller scale.

Names:
Erétria (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Eretria (C,V)
Néa Psará (C,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Eretrian (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Region of Central Greece (region (administrative division))  ............  Region of Central Greece (region (administrative division)) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Évvoia (regional division)  ................  Évvoia (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Euboea (island)  ....................  Euboea (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Erétria (inhabited place)  ........................  Erétria (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, B)  ............  founded as an Ionian colony
village (C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavation begun in the 19th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Erétria..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Eretria..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 315-317
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 375
Eretrian..........  [VP]
.................  Grove Art Online (2008-)
Néa Psará..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 83
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 137
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -817053
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 315-317
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 83
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 137
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 375
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Grove Art Online (2008-)

 

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