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ID: 7000638
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000638
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sūsah (inhabited place)  Sūsah (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 52 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 021 59 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 21.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Served as port for Cyrene from its foundation; achieved independence during Roman times; was a city of Roman Pentapolis; grew in prestige as Cyrene and Ptolemais declined; became provincial capital in the 6th century CE; Arab invasion in 643 led to urban decline.

Names:
Sūsah (preferred,C,V)
Màrsa Sùsa (C,V)
Marsa Susa (C,V)  ............ after Arab invasion in 643
Sozusa (H,V)  ............ name used in 7th century
Apollonia (H,V)  ............ ancient Greek

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Libya (nation)  ........  Libya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Jabal al Akhḑar (national district)  ............  Al Jabal al Akhḑar (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Sūsah (inhabited place)  ................  Sūsah (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Libya (nation)  ........  Libya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cyrenaica (historical region)  ............  Cyrenaica (historical region) (P)
Hierarchy of Sūsah (inhabited place)  ................  Sūsah (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  probably from 7th cen. BC
town (C)
archaeological site (C)
provincial capital (H)  ............  of Cyrenaica, 6th-7th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Apollonia..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8505
....................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Màrsa Sùsa..........  [GRLPSC]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Marsa Susa..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Americana (1986) XVII, 398
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 71
Sozusa..........  [VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 71
Sūsah..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 188
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopedia Americana (1986) XVII, 398
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8505
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 71
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 188
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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