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ID: 7005525
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005525
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Grado (inhabited place)  Grado (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 40 43 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.6786  decimal degrees
Long: 013 23 13 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.3869  decimal degrees

Note: Located on a small island between the Laguna di Grado & the Adriatic; renowned commercial port during Roman period; seat of the patriarchate of Nova Aquileia ca. 570-1451, when title was given to Venice; site of 6th cen. cathedral.

Names:
Grado (preferred,C,V)
Ad Aquas Gradatas (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (region (administrative division))  ............  Friuli-Venezia Giulia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Gorizia (province)  ................  Gorizia (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Grado (inhabited place)  ....................  Grado (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by refugees from nearby Aquilea during the time of Attila ca. 434-453
town (C)
resort center (C)
episcopal see (H)  ............  from 568, when bishopric was transferred from Aquileia after Lombard attack, until ultimately dissolved in 1751
port (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Ad Aquas Gradatas..........  [VP]
................................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 8
Grado..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Annuario Generale (1980)
..............  Blue Guide: Northern Italy (1984) 354, 357
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 345
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 74
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Blue Guide: Northern Italy (1984) 354, 357
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 345
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -118729
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 8
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 74
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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