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ID: 7004090
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004090
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lecce (inhabited place)  Lecce (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 23 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.3833  decimal degrees
Long: 018 11 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 18.1833  decimal degrees

Note: On Salentina peninsula; possibly site of Roman town of Lupiae; contested between Lombards, Byzantines and Saracens after fall of Roman Empire; has ruins of Roman amphitheater (from 4th century BCE) and examples of 16th-17th century Apulian Baroque architecture.

Names:
Lecce (preferred,C,V)
Lupia (H,V)
Lupiae (H,V)
Luppìu (C,V)
Ἀλήσιον (C,V,Ancient Greek,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Apulia (region (administrative division))  ............  Apulia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Lecce (province)  ................  Lecce (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Lecce (inhabited place)  ....................  Lecce (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient settlement
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
manufacturing center (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  since the 6th cen.
countship (H)  ............  under Norman control from the mid-11th cen. until passing the the Aragonese kings of Naples in 1463

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Rudiae .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Europe, Italy, Apulia, Lecce province) [5004309]

Sources and Contributors:
Ἀλήσιον..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Lecce..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Annuario Generale (1980)
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 231
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 110
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Lupia..........  [VP]
..............  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Lupiae..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 7957
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 534
Luppìu..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 231
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 7957
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -119920
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 534
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 110
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)

 

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