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ID: 7003947
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003947

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Catania (inhabited place)  Catania (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 015 06 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 15.1000  decimal degrees

Elevation:
22.965  feet    7.0000  meters

Note: Located at foot of Mount Etna; founded by Greeks in 8th cen. BCE; Athenian base of operations against Syracuse 432 BC; taken by Romans in First Punic War 263 BCE, by Saracens 902 CE & Normans ca. 1090; was often damaged by earthquakes & volcanic eruptions.

Names:
Catania (preferred,C,V)
Catana (H,V)
Catăna (H,V)
Catĭna (H,V)
Catane (H,V)
Catina (H,V)
Katáne (H,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Katana (H,V)
Κατάνη (H,V,Greek,U)
Katane (H,V)  ............ ancient

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 Catania (province)  ................  Catania (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Catania (inhabited place)  ....................  Catania (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Greeks in 729 BCE
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
seaport (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  produces chemicals, sulphur, cement, textiles & leather
fishing community (C)
episcopal see (C)
university center (C)  ............  founded in 1434
archaeological site (C)
battlefield (H)  ............  site of French victory over Spanish & Dutch fleet in 1676; was German defense point in WW II in 1943

Sources and Contributors:
Κατάνη..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Catana..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Catane..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-31
Catania..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  TCI: Sicilia (1989)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 229
Catina..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
.................  Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462270
Catăna..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Catĭna..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Katana..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Katane..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8000
.................  Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462270
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Katáne..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8000
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -114787
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-31
..................  TCI: Sicilia (1989)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 229
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)

 

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