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ID: 7002315
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002315
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Adana (inhabited place)  Adana (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 00 06 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.0017  decimal degrees
Long: 035 19 44 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.3289  decimal degrees

Note: Fourth largest city in Turkey; possibly situated on Hittite settlement from ca. 1400 BCE; Alexander the Great conquered city 335-334 BCE; ruled by 'Abbāsid Arabs late 7th century; passed through several hands until Turkmen Ramazan dynasty established 1378.

Names:
Adana (preferred,C,V)
Adhanah (C,V)
Antaniya (H,V)
Antioch Adana (H,V)
Antiochea ad Sarum (H,V)
Ataniya (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Adana (province)  ............  Adana (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Adana (inhabited place)  ................  Adana (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  ancient Hittite town, settled as a military station by the Romans in 66 BC
city (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since 1867
industrial center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  Çukurova University established 1973
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Adana..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 88-89
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 7
Adhanah..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Antaniya..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Antioch Adana..........  [VP]
..........................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Antiochea ad Sarum..........  [VP]
...................................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 8
Ataniya..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 7
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 7
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 88-89
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -732885
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 8
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 7
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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