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ID: 7004218
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004218
Record Type:
administrative
Matera (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 016 36 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Was important in Neolithic period, producing pottery during Middle Neolithic that has given the name "Matera ware" to a widespread style; was thriving medieval center, held by Normans, Aragonese & then by Orsini family of Rome.
Names:
Matera
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Basilicata
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Matera
(province) (
P
)
....................
Matera
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in Neolithic times, later was important medieval center
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted for museum of antiquities
Sources and Contributors:
Matera..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Annuario Generale (1980)
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 577
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
TCI: Basilicata Calabria (1980)
323
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
121
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
740
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 577
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-121381
..................
TCI: Basilicata Calabria (1980)
323
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
121
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
740
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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