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ID: 7006712
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006712
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Fondi (inhabited place)  Fondi (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 21 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.3500  decimal degrees
Long: 013 25 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.4167  decimal degrees

Elevation:
26.246  feet    8.0000  meters

Note: Located on Appian Way near the Lago di Fondi; settlements here date to 1000 BCE; was a Volsci town; had limited Roman citizenship by 338 BCE; was papal property from 5th cen. BCE; sacked by Lombards in 592 CE & Saracens in 846 & 1534; held successively by several families in Middle Ages.

Names:
Fondi (preferred,C,V,Italian,U,N)
Fundi (H,V,Latin,U,N)  ............ 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 Lazio (region (administrative division))  ............  Lazio (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Latina (province)  ................  Latina (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Fondi (inhabited place)  ....................  Fondi (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by ancient Volsci people, a thriving center during the Roman Empire & Middle Ages; was badly damaged in WW II
town (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  especially noted for historic Caecuban wine & for citrus fruits
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in AD 236
archaeological site (C)  ............  noted for Roman antiquities, including a temple beneath the church of San Pietro & the cyclopean walls
religious center (H)  ............  noted for conclave that elected Antipope Clement VII in 1378, causing the Great Schism of the Western Church (1378-1417)
Volscan (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Fondi..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Annuario Generale (1980)
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 298
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 865
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 66
Fundi..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8353
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 343
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 298
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 865
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8353
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -117685
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 66
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 343
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)

 

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