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ID: 1043116
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1043116
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Agira (inhabited place)  Agira (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 014 31 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 14.5167  decimal degrees

Note: Was an early town of the Siculi people; colonized by Greeks under Timoleon in 339 BC; was noted objective in WW II, taken by Allies in 1943.

Names:
Agira (preferred,C,V)
Agyrium (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sicilia (region (administrative division))  ............  Sicilia (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Enna (province)  ................  Enna (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Agira (inhabited place)  ....................  Agira (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient settlement
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Agira..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 7
Agyrium..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 11
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 11
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -109986
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 7
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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