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ID: 7010130
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010130
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Miseno (inhabited place)  Miseno (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.7833  decimal degrees
Long: 014 05 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 14.0833  decimal degrees

Note: Misenum served as the harbor for Cumae for several centuries; in 31 BCE Augustus turned the area into a large military complex, the chief naval base of the Roman fleet in the West; destroyed by Saracens in the 9th cen.; now a small seaside village.

Names:
Miseno (preferred,C,V)
Misenum (H,V)  ............ Roman

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since ancient times
village (C)
port (C)
military installation (H)  ............  Roman period

Sources and Contributors:
Miseno..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Gallerie degli Uffizi database (1987-)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Misenum..........  [FDA]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Gallerie degli Uffizi database (1987-)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -121833
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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