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ID: 1043116
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1043116
Record Type:
administrative
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:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sicily
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
C
)
part of unified Italy from 1861
................
Enna
(province) (
P
)
....................
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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