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ID: 7009108
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009108
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Velletri (inhabited place)  Velletri (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 41 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.6833  decimal degrees
Long: 012 47 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 12.7833  decimal degrees

Note: Historically controlled valley between the Alban & Volscian mountains; sacked by Romans 338 BC; was seat of the gens Octavia (ancestors of Emperor Augustus); was independent city-state from 11th cen. to 1549, when it fell to the Papal States.

Names:
Velletri (preferred,C,V)
Velester (H,V)
Velitrae (H,V)  ............ ancient

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 Roma (province)  ................  Roma (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Velletri (inhabited place)  ....................  Velletri (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient town of the Volsci
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Velester..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 984
Velitrae..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8306
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Velletri..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 204
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 984
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (2016-) http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/16130.html
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8306
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -131976
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 204
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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