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ID: 7004256
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004256
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Catanzaro (inhabited place)  Catanzaro (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 54 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.9000  decimal degrees
Long: 016 35 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.5833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on strategic hill over Ionian Sea; settled by Byzantines; captured by Guiscard the Norman in 1059, then fell to Saracens, Swiss, Normans & Angevins; resisted long siege by French in 1528; crucial in Napoleonic Wars & WW II; plagued by earthquakes.

Names:
Catanzaro (preferred,C,V)
Catacium (H,V)
Catasarion (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Calabria (region (administrative division))  ............  Calabria (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Catanzaro (province)  ................  Catanzaro (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Catanzaro (inhabited place)  ....................  Catanzaro (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 10th cen. by Byzantines, modern city was devastated by earthquakes in 1783 & 1908, but rebuilt
city (C)
regional capital (C)
provincial capital (C)
resort center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  noted for academy of sciences
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Catacium..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 229
Catanzaro..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Annuario Generale (1980)
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 40
Catasarion..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 163
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 163
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -114796
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 40
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 229
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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