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ID: 7593169
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7593169
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Messinía (general region)  Messinía (general region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 15 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.2500  decimal degrees
Long: 021 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 21.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Was home of advanced Mycenaean civilzation 13th cen. BCE; Dorian Greek invaders united with local peoples forming the Messenians; they were enslaved by Sparta in the 8th cen. BCE, & were banished in 5th cen. BCE, colonizing Messina, Sicily.

Names:
Messinía (preferred,C,V,Greek (transliterated))
Messinías (C,V)
Messenia (C,V,Greek (transliterated))
Messene (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Greece (nation)  ........  Greece (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Peloponnese (region (administrative division))  ............  Peloponnese (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Messinía (general region)  ................  Messinía (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)

Related geographic places:
coextensive with ....  Messinía .......... (regional division)
..............................  (World, Europe, Greece, Pelopónnisos region) [7011369]

Sources and Contributors:
Messene..........  [VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 573-574
Messenia..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 593
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 463
Messinía..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 241
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Messinías..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 593
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 241
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 593
..................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -823840
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 573-574
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 463
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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