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ID: 7015528 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015528			Record Type: administrative

Poreč (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 14 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 45.2333 decimal degrees
Long: 013 36 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 13.6000 decimal degrees

Note: Located on Istria peninsula adjacent to Adriatic Sea. Poreč was mentioned by Livy in battles between the Romans and Histri (178-177 BCE). Tiberius made the city Colonia Iulia Parentium. Before 1947, the city belonged to Italy, then later Yugoslavia, and finally independent Croatia. The city is the site of the 6th-century Euphrasian Basilica. The "Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč" was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997.

Names:

Poreč (preferred,C,V)
Parenzo (C,V)
Colonia Iulia Parentium (H,V)
Parentium (H,V)	............	ancient

Hierarchical Position:

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Europe (continent) (P)

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Croatia (nation) (P)

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Istarska Županija (county) (P)

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Poreč (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	settled by Illyrians in Late Bronze Age
town (C)
archaeological site (C)	............	site of ancient insulae & mosaics
colonial settlement (H)	............	established by Romans
municipium (H)	............	status was granted by Octavian

Sources and Contributors:

Colonia Iulia Parentium..........	[VP]
.........................................	Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 676

Parentium..........	[GRLPSC, VP]
....................	GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12576
....................	Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 676

Parenzo..........	[GRLPSC]
.................	TCI: Friuli-Venezia Guilia (1982) 214

Poreč..........	[BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............	Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 676
..............	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 156
..............	USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers

Subject: .....	[BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12576
..................	Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 676
..................	TCI: Friuli-Venezia Guilia (1982) 214
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 156
..................	USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 23 April 2009

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