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ID: 7003800 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003800			Record Type: administrative

Lentini (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 17 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 37.2833 decimal degrees
Long: 015 00 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 15.0000 decimal degrees

Note: Town on the site of a Greek colonial city founded by Naxians in 729 BCE. Became subject to Syracuse, then Rome. Destroyed by the Saracens in 848 CE.

Names:

Lentini (preferred,C,V)
Leontini (H,V)
Leontium (H,V,Latin,U)
Leontinoi (H,V)	............	ancient
Λεοντῖνοι (H,V,Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:

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Europe (continent) (P)

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Italia (nation) (P)

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Sicilia (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861

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Siracusa (province) (P)

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Lentini (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:

Λεοντῖνοι..........	[VP]
....................	Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

Lentini..........	[BHA, VP Preferred]
.................	Annuario Generale (1980)
.................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)

Leontini..........	[VP]
.................	GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 15528
.................	Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462279

Leontinoi..........	[VP]
....................	GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 15528

Leontium..........	[VP]
.................	Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

Subject: .....	[BHA, VP]
..................	Annuario Generale (1980)
..................	GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 15528
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -119996
..................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Pleiades (2006-) A Greek colonial city founded by Naxians in 729 BC, Leontini was reduced by Hippocrates of Gela in 498 BC. Following the Sicilian Expedition, the city became subject to Syracuse. In Roman times it may have been of little importance and was destroyed by the Saracens in AD 848

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