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ID: 7005371
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005371
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Savona (inhabited place)  Savona (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 17 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.2833  decimal degrees
Long: 008 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.5000  decimal degrees

Elevation:
13.123  feet    4.0000  meters

Note: On Rivera di Ponente; destroyed by Lombards in 639 CE & by rival city of Genoa in 1528; ceded to Napoleonic Empire 1805, to Kingdom of Sardinia 1815 & to Italy 1861; was heavily bombed during WW II; noted for Renaissance & Baroque architecture.

Names:
Savona (preferred,C,V)
Sann-a (C,V,Ligurian,U)
Savo (H,V)
Vada Sabbata (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 Liguria (region (administrative division))  ............  Liguria (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Savona (province)  ................  Savona (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Savona (inhabited place)  ....................  Savona (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  Gallo-Roman in origin, it was first recorded as the Carthiginian base of Savo during the Second Punic War ca. 205 BCE
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
metallurgical center (C)
shipbuilding center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Marcia Aleramica, the border territory of the Aleramici, from 950-1191

Sources and Contributors:
Sann-a..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Savo..........  [VP]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 483
Savona..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 483
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 174
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Vada Sabbata..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 483
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 483
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -129131
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 174
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)

 

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