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ID: 7006011
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006011
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lodi (inhabited place)  Lodi (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 19 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.3167  decimal degrees
Long: 009 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.5000  decimal degrees

Note: On right bank of Adda River; was Roman colony of Laus Pompeia 89 BC; present-day town built in 1158 by Frederick Barbarossa I, 4 miles from ancient Lodi, destroyed by Milanese in 1111; ruled by Milan 14th cen.; noted for a 12th-cen. Romanesque cathedral.

Names:
Lodi (preferred,C,V)
Laus Pompeia (H,V)  ............ in 89 BC

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originally settled at site of present-day Lodi Vecchio in 5th cen. BC
town (C)
episcopal see (C)
agricultural center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since about 1995
battlefield (H)  ............  site of Battle of Lodi on May 10, 1796, when Napoleon I gained control of Lomabrdy after defeating Austrians

Sources and Contributors:
Laus Pompeia..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 526
Lodi..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Annuario Generale (1980)
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 526
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 440
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  TCI: Lombardia (1954)
...........  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 112
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 526
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 440
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -120283
..................  TCI: Lombardia (1954)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 112
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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