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ID: 7006789
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Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Orte (inhabited place)  Orte (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 012 23 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 12.3833  decimal degrees

Elevation:
433.070  feet    132.0000  meters

Note: Town on a high tuff cliff, on an ancient Etruscan site located at the junction of the Nar and the Tiber. It is named after the Etruscan goddess Horta, whose temple at Rome always remained open. It was a military colony of Augustus. Orte was the site of battles between Etruscans and Romans in 310 and 283 BCE.

Names:
Orte (preferred,C,V,Italian,U,N)
Hortanum (H,V,Latin,U,N)
Horta (H,V,Etruscan-P,U,N)
Hurta (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lazio (region (administrative division))  ............  Lazio (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Viterbo (province)  ................  Viterbo (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Orte (inhabited place)  ....................  Orte (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Etruria (former group of nations/states/cities)  ........  Etruria (former group of nations/states/cities) (P)
Hierarchy of Orte (inhabited place)  ............  Orte (inhabited place) (P,C) flourished 7th-3rd centuries BCE

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
ancient site (H)
military installation (H)
battlefield (H)
Etruscan (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Horta..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..............  Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1995) 178
..............  Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
Hortanum..........  [VP]
.................  Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1995) 178
.................  Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
Hurta..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Orte..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Annuario Generale (1980)
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 144
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1995) 178
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -123474
..................  Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 144
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1995) 178
..........  Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

 

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