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ID: 7005923
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005923
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Magenta (inhabited place)  Magenta (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 008 53 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.8833  decimal degrees

Elevation:
452.755  feet    138.0000  meters

Note: Was probably a settlement of the Insubres, a Celtic tribe, who founded it around the 5th century BCE. Name derived from Roman general & emperor Marcus Maxentius, who had headquarters here 306-312 CE; site of Battle of Magenta 1859, in which Italians, fighting for independence, won decisive battle over Austrians; purple-red dye named in honor of battle.

Names:
Magenta (preferred,C,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 Lombardy (region (administrative division))  ............  Lombardy (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Milano (province)  ................  Milano (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Magenta (inhabited place)  ....................  Magenta (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  Roman center
town (C)
manufacturing center (C)
battlefield (H)  ............  on 4 April 4 1859
Ancient Roman (H)
Celtic (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Magenta..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 670
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 116
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 708
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 670
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -120670
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 116
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 708
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)

 

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