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ID: 7029383
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7029383

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 19 30 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.3250  decimal degrees
Long: 023 19 08 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.3189  decimal degrees

Note: At one time the "seven-gated city of Thebes" was the seat of one of the oldest and greatest powers of Greece. Only a few ruins of the city remain today on the Cadmea, the acropolis of ancient Thebes. It was named for Cadmus, the mythical founder of the city. Thebes was the main city of ancient Boeotia, and is identified with many legends, including stories of Dirce, Epigonus, Oedipus and the Sphinx. It entered a power struggle with Athens in the 6th cen. BCE. It was destroyed by Alexander the Great.

Names:
Thívai (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated)-P,U,N)
Thévai (C,V)
Thivai (C,V)
Thiva (C,V)
Thive (C,V)
Thebes (C,O,English-P,U,N)
Thebes (Greek (transliterated),U)
Thèbes (C,O)
Thēvai (C,V)
Thebai (C,V)
Tebe (C,O)
Theban (C,V,English,U,A)
Thēbai (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Thíva (NA,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Thebae (H,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Thebae Boeotiae (H,V)
Theben (H,V,Greek (transliterated),U)
Theben (German-P,U,N)

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 Boeotia (regional division)  ................  Boeotia (regional division) (P)
Hierarchy of Thebes (inhabited place)  ....................  Thebes (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  traditionally founded in 1313 BCE; site of Mycenaean ruins
town (C)
market center (C)
archaeological site (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Byzantine Hellas

Related geographic places:
historical connection ....  Thebes .......... (deserted settlement)
........................................  (World, Africa, Egypt, Qinā) [7001297]
........................................  Greek and Egyptian cities had same nwme, temples to Amun, and loose association since ancient times, as mentioned in the Iliad

Sources and Contributors:
Tebe..........  [VP]
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 524
Thebae..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 927
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Thebae Boeotiae..........  [VP]
.............................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Thebai..........  [VP]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003) Accessed 05/29/2002.
Thēbai..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Theban..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) "Athens and Thebes." Accessed 05/29/2002.
Theben..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
.................  Cassell's German Dictionary (1982)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003) Accessed 05/29/2002.
Thebes..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 927
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 197; 193
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1206
Thèbes..........  [VP]
.................  Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) 551
Thévai..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Thēvai..........  [VP]
.................  Library of Congress Name Authority File Acessed 05/28/2002.
Thiva..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003) Accessed 05/29/2002.
Thíva..........  [VP]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Thívai..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 197
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Thivai..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
Thive..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 927
..................  Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) 551
..................  Cassell's German Dictionary (1982)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) "Athens and Thebes." Accessed 05/29/2002.
..................  Library of Congress Name Authority File Acessed 05/28/2002.
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -829288
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003) Accessed 05/29/2002.
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 197; 193
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 357
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1206; 524
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) Accessed 05/29/2002.
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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