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ID: 7004068
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004068
Record Type:
administrative
Pescara (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 014 13 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Adriatic Sea at mouth of Pescara river; was established by Romans; was nearly destroyed in Germanic invasions; again flourished in Middle Ages; has often been scene of fighting by rival powers; was heavily damaged in WW II.
Names:
Pescara
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Aternum
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Ostia Aterni
(
H
,
V
)
Piscaria
(
H
,
V
)
............
name of medieval town, meaning "abounding with fish"
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Abruzzi
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Pescara
(province) (
P
)
....................
Pescara
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was Roman settlement, became important medieval center
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
resort (
C
)
fishing community (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
for road & rail traffic
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for electrical & mechanical products, textiles & processed food
shipbuilding center (
C
)
naval base (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted as birthplace of poet Gabriele D'Annunzio (born 1863)
Sources and Contributors:
Aternum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 321
Ostia Aterni..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 730
Pescara..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Annuario Generale (1980)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
149
Piscaria..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 321
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 730
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 321
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-124336
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
149
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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