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ID: 7010770
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010770

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 022 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 22.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Town located on the ancient site, seat of Delphic oracle, & site of worship of Apollo, Pythius & Dionysus; site of Pythian games every 4 years; was sacked several times for rich gifts left here by pilgrims, notably by Phocians in 4th cen. BCE & by Sulla & other Romans.

Names:
Dhelfoi (preferred,C,V)
Delphi (C,O,English-P,U,N)
Delphes (C,O)
Delfo (C,O)
Dhelfoí (C,V,Greek (transliterated)-P,U,N)
Δελφοί (H,V,Greek,U)
Pytho (H,V)  ............ ancient name

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Region of Central Greece (region (administrative division))  ............  Region of Central Greece (region (administrative division)) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Phocis (regional division)  ................  Phocis (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Delphi (inhabited place)  ....................  Delphi (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in Late Bronze Age
town (C)
archaeological site (C)
religious center (H)
ancient site (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Δελφοί..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Delfo..........  [VP]
..............  Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983) 145
Delphes..........  [BHA]
.................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Delphi..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Baedekers: Greece (1985)
.................  Blue Guide: Greece (1981)
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Knaurs: Griechenland (1985)
.................  Pleiades (2006-) http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540726
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites [online] (2000-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 54
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 324
Dhelfoi..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 55
Dhelfoí..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-46
Pytho..........  [VP]
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 324
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Greece (1985)
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Blue Guide: Greece (1981)
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983) 145
..................  Knaurs: Griechenland (1985)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -816289
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-46
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 54; 55
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 324
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites [online] (2000-)

 

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