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ID: 7010925
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010925
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Metéora (inhabited place)  Metéora (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 44 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.7333  decimal degrees
Long: 021 38 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 21.6333  decimal degrees

Note: Site of medieval 6 Orthodox monasteries located atop natural stone pillars that have been eroded so they stand as individual columns; at one time there were 23 monasteries active here, though now only 4 are inhabited; formerly accessible only by ropes & nets.

Names:
Metéora (preferred,C,V)
Méteora (C,O)
Meteora (C,O)
Μετέωρα (C,V,Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ellás (nation)  ........  Ellás (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Thessalía (region (administrative division))  ............  Thessalía (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Tríkkala (regional division)  ................  Tríkkala (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Metéora (inhabited place)  ....................  Metéora (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  earliest monastery dates to 12th cen.
monastic center (C)
butte (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Μετέωρα..........  [VP]
.................  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World online (2000-)
Méteora..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Knaurs: Griechenland (1985)
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1989)
Meteora..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 594
Metéora..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-111
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 594
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Knaurs: Griechenland (1985)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-111
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 126
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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