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ID: 7004094
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004094
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brindisi (inhabited place)  Brindisi (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 38 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.6333  decimal degrees
Long: 017 56 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 17.9333  decimal degrees

Note: On Y-shaped sea inlet of Adriatic; was terminus of Appian Way; taken by Caesar 49 BC & Virgil died here 19 BC; prospered during Norman conquest 1071 & with Suez Canal construction 1869; was briefly seat of Italian government after death of Mussolini 1943.

Names:
Brindisi (preferred,C,V)
Bríndisi (C,V)
Brentesion (H,V)
Brundisium (H,V)  ............ Latin name
Brundusium (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Apulia (region (administrative division))  ............  Apulia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Brindisi (province)  ................  Brindisi (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Brindisi (inhabited place)  ....................  Brindisi (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  while legend attributes its founding to Diomedes, was originally an ancient Messapian town, then made a Roman town ca. 266 BC
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)  ............  important since Roman times; also served as embarkation point for several Crusades during Middle Ages
tourist center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
commercial center (C)
naval base (H)  ............  center of Italian naval operations during WW I

Sources and Contributors:
Brentesion..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 520
Brindisi..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 123
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 521
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 170
Bríndisi..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 33
Brundisium..........  [VP]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 13690
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 339
Brundusium..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 177
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 123
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 520; II, 521
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 13690
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -112183
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 170
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 33
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 339
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 177
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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