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ID: 7005693
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005693
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ivrea (inhabited place)  Ivrea (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 007 52 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.8667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Dora Baltea river; Romans seized town from Salassi to attain valuable gold mines here; was seat of a Lombard duchy during early Middle Ages; center of the March of Ivrea from 889; passed to Monferrato in 1266 & to House of Savoy in 1313.

Names:
Ivrea (preferred,C,V)
Eporedia (H,V)  ............ ancient name

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

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Transpadane Republic (historical region)  ........  Transpadane Republic (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Ivrea (inhabited place)  ............  Ivrea (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Savoy (historical region)  ........  Savoy (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Ivrea (inhabited place)  ............  Ivrea (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established as center of the Salassi, seized by the Romans in 143 BC
town (C)
episcopal see (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  especially noted for textiles & office equipment (is headquarters for Olivetti company)
tourist center (C)  ............  famous for annual carnival in February
transportation center (C)  ............  for road & rail traffic
mining center (H)  ............  famed for gold mines in ancient times

Sources and Contributors:
Eporedia..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 430
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 7975
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Ivrea..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Annuario Generale (1980)
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 431
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 444
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 89
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 430; I, 431
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 444
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 7975
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -119413
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 89
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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