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ID: 7003987
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003987
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Fano (inhabited place)  Fano (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 50 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 013 01 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.0167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Adriatic Sea; was site of ancient temple of Fortune; was east terminus of Flaminian Way; site where Romans defeated Carthage in 207 BCE; was part of Byzantine Pentapolis; part of Papal States 1463-1860.

Names:
Fano (preferred,C,V)
Colonia Julia Fanestris (H,V)
Colonia Julia Fenestris (H,V)
Fanum (H,V)
Fanum Fortunae (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Marches (region (administrative division))  ............  Marches (region (administrative division)) (P,C) became part of unified Italy in 1860
Hierarchy of Pesaro e Urbino (province)  ................  Pesaro e Urbino (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Fano (inhabited place)  ....................  Fano (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in ancient times, was a Roman colony
city (C)
commune (administrative) (C)
manufacturing center (C)
fishing community (C)
episcopal see (C)
publishing center (C)  ............  famed for 1st printing press with movable Arabic type set up in 1513 by Pope Julius II
university center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Colonia Julia Fanestris..........  [GRLPSC]
.........................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Colonia Julia Fenestris..........  [VP]
.........................................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 341
Fano..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Annuario Generale (1980)
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 289
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 64
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Fanum..........  [VP]
..............  TCI: Marche (1979) 150
Fanum Fortunae..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.............................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9022
.............................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 289
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9022
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -117233
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  TCI: Marche (1979) 150
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 64
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 341
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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