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ID: 5002292
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5002292
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Porto (inhabited place)  Porto (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 009 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Was established as a large artificial harbor excavated from land in natural bay at mouth of Tiber river; town grew up around the harbor.

Names:
Porto (preferred,C,V)
Porto Vecchio (C,V)
Civitas Flavia Constantiniana (H,V)
Portus (H,V)  ............ ancient
Portus Augusti (H,V)

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was constructed as an artificial harbor for ancient Rome
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavation was begun in 19th cen., basin was filled in 1925

Sources and Contributors:
Civitas Flavia Constantiniana..........  [VP]
..................................................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 731
Porto..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
..............  Blue Guide: Rome (1979)
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Porto Vecchio..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Portus..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8926
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Portus Augusti..........  [VP]
.............................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8926
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Blue Guide: Rome (1979)
..................  Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (2016-) http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/16710.html
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8926
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -125575
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 731
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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