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ID: 7000637
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000637
Record Type:
administrative
Darnah (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 46 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.7667
decimal degrees
Long: 022 39 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located very near coastal settlement that was reported by Herodotos to have been original Greek settlement in Libya; today is coastal city that exports wool, corn, wax, honey & bananas; taken from Barbary pirates by American navy 1805.
Names:
Darnah
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Derna
(
C
,
V
)
Darnis
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Libya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Darnah
(national district) (
P
)
................
Darnah
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settlement in area 7th cen. BC
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Darnah..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1990)
plate 85
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
52
Darnis..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
253
Derna..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopedia Americana (1986)
XVII, 398
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
328
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopedia Americana (1986)
XVII, 398
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
253
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1990)
plate 85
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
52
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
328
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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