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ID: 7011029
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011029
Record Type:
administrative
Préveza (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 020 45 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 20.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Ambracian gulf in western Greece; was founded by Pyrrhus of Epirus in 290 BCE; noted for nearby strait where Octavius Augustus defeated Mark Antony in 31 BCE; held by Venice from 1499, then by Turks.
Names:
Préveza
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Preveza
(
C
,
V
)
Prevesa
(
C
,
V
)
Prebeza
(
C
,
V
)
Berenikia
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Epirus
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Préveza
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Préveza
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 290 BC
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Berenikia..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 756
Prebeza..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 756
Prevesa..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.................
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Preveza..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Préveza..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
241
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
241
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 756
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-827042
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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