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ID: 7002384
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002384
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ayaş (inhabited place)  Ayaş (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 01 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.0167  decimal degrees
Long: 032 21 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 32.3500  decimal degrees

Note: Was a sheltered harbor located on sandy shore of a shallow bay with an island in the center, now a peninsula; was site of ancient city that flourished in Roman times; was virtually deserted after Arab invasions.

Names:
Ayaş (preferred,C,V)
Selçikler (H,V)
Sebaste (H,V)  ............ renamed in honor of August Caesar
Elaeussa (H,V)  ............ ancient
Elaioussa (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Türkiye (nation)  ........  Türkiye (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ankara (province)  ............  Ankara (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Ayaş (inhabited place)  ................  Ayaş (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1st or 2nd cen. BC
village (C)
archaeological site (C)
city (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Ayaş..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Elaeussa..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8653
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 294-295
Elaioussa..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopedia of World History (1980) XII, 276
Sebaste..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 294
Selçikler..........  [BHA]
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopedia of World History (1980) XII, 276
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8653
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 294; 294-295
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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