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ID: 7004057
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004057
Record Type:
administrative
Campobasso (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 34 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.5667
decimal degrees
Long: 014 39 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Modern town is located on a fertile plain, outside the walls of the medieval town; is noted for medieval castle & other architecture; was important as site where British & US forces joined during the Volturno campaign in WW II.
Names:
Campobasso
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
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Molise
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Campobasso
(province) (
P
)
....................
Campobasso
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
inhabitants set up new settlement outside the medieval walls in 1732
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
was long famous for cutlery, now produces paving tiles & soap
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for famous pears that ripen in winter & for semi-hard "scamorze" cheeses
Sources and Contributors:
Campobasso..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 148
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 781
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
38
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 148
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 781
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-112797
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
38
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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