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ID: 7004529
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004529
Record Type:
administrative
Capua (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 014 12 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded 856 CE on site of ancient Casilinum; captured 1501 by Cesare Borgia; was one of the fortified defenses of the Kingdom of Naples; fell to Kingdom of Italy in 1860; scene of heavy fighting in World War II (October 1943).
Names:
Capua
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Casilinum
(
H
,
V
,
S
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Campania
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Caserta
(province) (
P
)
....................
Capua
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
an important road junction in Roman times; modern Capua was founded on this site in 856 CE
town (
C
)
fortified settlement (
H
)
Ancient Roman (
H
)
Related geographic places:
moved from ....
Santa Maria Capua Vetere
.......... (inhabited place)
..................
(World, Europe, Italy, Campania, Caserta province) [7004531]
Sources and Contributors:
Capua..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..............
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
39
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
219
Casilinum..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 837
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 837
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-113243
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
39
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
219
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
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