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ID: 7059228
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7059228

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Aüza (lost settlement)  Aüza (lost settlement)

Note: Earliest African city of the Phoenician civilization that existed 3,500 years ago. The site of this city is unknown, although scholars have traditionally placed it somewhere beyond Carthage in Tunisia. Recent research suggests it may have been closer to Egypt, in modern Libya.

Names:
Aüza (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Libya (nation)  ........  Libya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Aüza (lost settlement)  ............  Aüza (lost settlement) (P)

Place Types:
lost settlement (preferred, C)
inhabited place (H)
colony (H)
Phoenician (H)

Related geographic places:
possibly identified as ....  Aziris .......... (deserted settlement)
........................................  (World, Africa, Libya, Darnah) [7059227]
........................................  proposed by John Boardman of the University of Oxford in 2010

Sources and Contributors:
Aüza..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

 

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