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ID: 7011026
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011026
Record Type:
administrative
Pella (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 45 36 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.7600
decimal degrees
Long: 022 31 09 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.5192
decimal degrees
Note:
Was thriving city of ancient Macedonia; noted as the birthplace of Alexander the Great in 356 BCE; declined after conquest by the Romans.
Names:
Pella
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pélla
(
C
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Agli Apoltoli
(
C
,
V
)
Bounomeia
(
H
,
V
)
Bounomos
(
H
,
V
)
Pella Macedoniae
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ellás
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kentrikí Makedonía
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Pélla
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Pella
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
systematic excavation was begun in mid-20th cen.
capital (
H
)
............
of ancient Macedon, from 4th cen. BC
inhabited place (
H
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Macedonia
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................
(World, Europe) [7001349]
located on ....
Via Egnatia
.......... (road)
..................
(World) [8713927]
Sources and Contributors:
Agli Apoltoli..........
[
VP
]
..........................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Bounomeia..........
[
VP
]
....................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
685-686
Bounomos..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
685-686
Pella..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 722
..............
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
685-686
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Pélla..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-134
Pella Macedoniae..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Atlas of Greek & Roman World (1981)
47
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
Atlas of Greek & Roman World (1981)
47
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 722
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-825836
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
685-686
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-134
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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