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ID: 7015557
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015557
Record Type:
administrative
Sisak (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 016 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Sava river; was important military base for Octavian's campaign against Dacians; from 3rd cen. was bishop's seat of St. Quirinus; Turks were defeated here in 1593 & 1641; part of Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1641 to 1918.
Names:
Sisak
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Sisek
(
C
,
V
)
Sziszek
(
C
,
O
)
Sissek
(
C
,
O
)
Siscia
(
H
,
O
)
Segestica
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Croatia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sisačko-Moslavačka Županija
(county) (
P
)
................
Sisak
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an Iron Age settlement, later a Celtic settlement & site of principal mint & treasury of Roman Empire in 3rd cen. AD
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
includes ancient inscribed walls, Roman bath buildings & important finds of arms, metal ware & bronze statuary
capital (
H
)
............
of Pannonia Savia in 1st cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Segestica..........
[
VP
]
....................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
844
Sisak..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
184
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Siscia..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
844
Sisek..........
[
VP
]
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1121
Sissek..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1121
Sziszek..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1121
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
844
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
184
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1121
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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