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ID: 7004025
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004025
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ascoli Piceno (inhabited place)  Ascoli Piceno (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 013 34 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.5667  decimal degrees

Note: Was ancient capital of the Piceni people; taken by Rome in 3rd cen. BC; notorious for revolt against Rome in 90 BC in Social War, when Roman population was masacred; was noted medieval bishopric; free republic 1183-1266, then went to the Papal States.

Names:
Ascoli Piceno (preferred,C,V)
Ascoli (C,V)
Asculum (H,V)
Asculum Picenum (H,V)  ............ ancient name

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 Ascoli Piceno (province)  ................  Ascoli Piceno (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Ascoli Piceno (inhabited place)  ....................  Ascoli Piceno (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in ancient times
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in 8th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Ascoli..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Ascoli Piceno..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..........................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..........................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51-52
..........................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..........................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 16
Asculum..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
Asculum Picenum..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.............................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9207
.............................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
.............................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51-52
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9207
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -110789
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 16
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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