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ID: 5003644
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5003644
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Amrît (inhabited place)  Amrît (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 035 54 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.9000  decimal degrees

Note: Was founded by colonists from Phoenicia in 2nd mill. BC; had become principal mainland city of the Phoenician confederation of Arados during the time of Alexander the Great; today is famed as site of only well-preserved Phoenician temple in the world.

Names:
Amrît (preferred,C,V)
Amrit (C,V)
Marathus (H,V)
Marathos (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Syria (nation)  ........  Syria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Qunayṭirah (governorate)  ............  Al Qunayṭirah (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Amrît (inhabited place)  ................  Amrît (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Phoenicians
town (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Amrît..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  USBGN: Syria (1983)
Amrit..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 30
Marathos..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 91
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Marathus..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 30
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 91
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  USBGN: Syria (1983)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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