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ID: 7006120
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006120

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 011 59 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 11.9833  decimal degrees

Elevation:
1620.734  feet    494.0000  meters

Note: Located on a hillside. Originally an Umbrian city; was conquered and enlarged by the Etruscans, one of the 12 cities of the Etruscan league; was confederated with Rome in 310 BCE; taken by Vandals in 405 CE; became part of Grand Duchy of Tuscany after a siege by Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V in 1529.

Names:
Cortona (preferred,C,V)
Corito (H,V,S)  ............ name of Roman colony
Curtun (H,V)  ............ Etruscan name

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tuscany (region (administrative division))  ............  Tuscany (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of new kingdom of Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Arezzo (province)  ................  Arezzo (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Cortona (inhabited place)  ....................  Cortona (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Etruria (former group of nations/states/cities)  ........  Etruria (former group of nations/states/cities) (P)
Hierarchy of Cortona (inhabited place)  ............  Cortona (inhabited place) (P,H) flourished 7th-3rd centuries BCE

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an Etruscan center
town (C)
tourist center (C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  noted for ruins of cyclopean walls, Roman baths and temple
hill settlement (C)
Etruscan (H)
Ancient Umbrian (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Corito..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 207
Cortona..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 49
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 294
Curtun..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 207
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -116376
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 49
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 294
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)

 

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