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ID: 7010760
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010760

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.7833  decimal degrees
Long: 019 39 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 19.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Lezhë is a town located on the Drin River, on a steep hill. It was the site of several prehistoric settlements, and was an important ancient port when the main bed of the Drin River was further to the north. Fortified in the 4th century BCE, it was claimed by Dionysius of Syracuse and Philip V of Macedon.

Names:
Lezhë (preferred,C,V)
Lesh (C,V)
Leshë (C,V)
Leshe (C,V)
Lezh (C,V)
Lesha (C,V)
Leshi (C,V)
Alessio (C,V)
Lissus (H,V)  ............ ancient
Lissos (H,V)  ............ ancient
Alesia (H,O)
Alessium (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Albania (nation)  ........  Albania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lezhë (county)  ............  Lezhë (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Lezhë (inhabited place)  ................  Lezhë (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originally settled in prehistoric times, later founded in 385 BC
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
archaeological site (C)
World Heritage Site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Alesia..........  [VP]
.................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 13
Alessio..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Alessium..........  [VP]
.................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 13
Lesh..........  [GRLPSC]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Lesha..........  [GRLPSC]
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Leshë..........  [GRLPSC]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Leshe..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 516
Leshi..........  [GRLPSC]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Lezh..........  [GRLPSC]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Lezhë..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 112
Lissos..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5171
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 520
Lissus..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 516
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5171
..................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 13
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 520
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 112
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)

 

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