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ID: 7007035
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007035
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Civitavecchia (inhabited place)  Civitavecchia (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 011 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 11.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Tyrrhenian Sea; founded by Trajan as port for Rome; flourished in late Roman era; sacked by Vandals, then Saracens (828); inhabitants moved to nearby mountains, but later returned to old site; walls strengthened in 16th cen.; damaged in WW II.

Names:
Civitavecchia (preferred,C,V)
Centum Cellae (H,V)
Centumcellae (H,V)  ............ ancient
Trajani Portus (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 Lazio (region (administrative division))  ............  Lazio (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Roma (province)  ................  Roma (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Civitavecchia (inhabited place)  ....................  Civitavecchia (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in early 2nd cen. AD, greatly expanded after WW II
town (C)
seaport (C)
episcopal see (C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  noted for large Roman bath & gate dedicated to Trajan; also for keep designed by Bramante & finished by Michelangelo in 1537
fortified settlement (H)  ............  noted as one of the most strongly fortified towns in the Papal States

Sources and Contributors:
Centumcellae..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 7997
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Centum Cellae..........  [GRLPSC]
..........................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Civitavecchia..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..........................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..........................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 341
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..........................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 46
Trajani Portus..........  [VP]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 190
.............................  Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1995) 102
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 190
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 341
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 7997
..................  Hazlitt, Classical Gazetteer (1995) 102
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -115666
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 46
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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