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ID: 7001083
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001083
Record Type:
administrative
Bizerte (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 009 52 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 9.8667
decimal degrees
Note:
Settled as a Phoenician outpost; taken by Arabs in the 7th century; occupied by Spain 1535-1572; Barbary pirate base until capture by French in 1881; seized by Allies in May 1943 during World War II; French military base evacuated in 1963.
Names:
Bizerte
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 661
Banzart
(
C
,
V
)
Bizerta
(
C
,
V
)
Hippo Dhiarrhytus
(
H
,
V
)
Hippo Zarytus
(
H
,
V
)
Hippo Zarythus
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tūnis
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bizerte
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Bizerte
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Africa
(province) (
P,
H
)
from 146 BCE
............
Bizerte
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
after 1200 BCE
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
colony (
H
)
............
of ancient Rome
Sources and Contributors:
Banzart..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 106
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 876
Bizerta..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 106
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 876
Bizerte..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 106
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 876-877
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
28
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
150
Hippo Dhiarrhytus..........
[
VP
]
................................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
345
Hippo Zarythus..........
[
VP
]
.............................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
10520
Hippo Zarytus..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 106
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
150
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 106
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 876; I, 876-877
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
10520
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
28
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
345
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
150
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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