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ID: 7003788
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003788
Record Type:
administrative
Ragusa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 55 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 014 44 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Iblei mountains above the gorge of the Irminio river; was recorded as important Greek center by 6th century BCE; was thriving late Roman center on major road; modern town grew up across a declivity from the ancient site.
Names:
Ragusa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hybla Heraea
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hybla Heraia
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sicilia
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
C
)
part of unified Italy from 1861
................
Ragusa
(province) (
P
)
....................
Ragusa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in prehistoric times, later was a Greek center; modern town was rebuilt after earthquake in 1693
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
............
for asphalt
oil field site (
C
)
............
principal oil-bearing zone in Italy since 1970
agricultural center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
produces asphalt products & cement
archaeological site (
C
)
............
has prehistoric & Greek necropolises & Roman remains
episcopal see (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted for Baroque architecture & paintings in Palazzo Donnafugata
Sources and Contributors:
Hybla Heraea..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 770
Hybla Heraia..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
399
Ragusa..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Annuario Generale (1980)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 900-901
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
161
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 770
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 900-901
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-126066
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
399
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
161
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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