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Palermo (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 38 07 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.1167 decimal degrees |
Long: 013 22 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 13.3667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Founded by Phoenicians; passed to Carthaginians; was Roman free town 354 BCE; under Ostrogoths, Byzantines (from 535 CE), Saracens (from 832 CE); flourished under Normans from 1072; went to Hohenstaufens (1194), Angevins, Aragonese (from 1280s), and Spain. Palermo was seized by Garibaldi in 1860 and made a part of the kingdom of Italy in 1861; it was captured by Allied forces in 1943. |
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Palermo (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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Πάνορμος (C,V,Greek,U)
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بَلَرْم (C,V,Arabic,U)
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Balarm (C,V)
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Ziz (C,V,Phoenician,U)
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פאלרמו (C,U,Hebrew )
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Panhormus (H,V)
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Panormos (H,V)
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Panormus (H,V)
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Panormus Siciliae (H,V)
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Sicily (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861 |
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Palermo (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded by Phoenician traders in 8th cen. BC, modern city was rebuilt after severe bombings in WW II |
city (C) |
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regional capital (C) |
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provincial capital (C) |
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seaport (C) |
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has been important since Antiquity |
industrial center (C) |
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industries of manufacturing, chemicals & printing have developed since WW II |
trade center (C) |
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especially for foreign trade; exports citrus fruits, cereals, fresh fish & chemicals |
transportation center (C) |
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for merchant & passenger lines to Tunisia & Naples |
cultural center (C) |
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flourished under medieval court; modern city is plagued by poverty, but is still noted for medieval Arab-Norman architecture |
episcopal see (C) |
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cathedral was founded in 1185 |
capital (H) |
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of ancient Carthaginian holdings in Sicily; of kingdom of Sicily, 11th-12th cen. |
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