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ID: 7015639
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015639
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Castellammare di Stabia (inhabited place)  Castellammare di Stabia (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 42 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.7000  decimal degrees
Long: 014 29 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 14.4833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Bay of Naples; revolted against Rome in social wars of 90 BCE, sacked by Sulla; luxurious Roman villas were built here; was destroyed by eruption of Vesuvius (with Pompeii and Herculaneum) in 79 CE; modern town grew just to SW of ancient site.

Names:
Castellammare di Stabia (preferred,C,V)
Castellamare di Stabia (C,V)
Castellammare (C,V)
Stabiae (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 Campania (region (administrative division))  ............  Campania (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Napoli (province)  ................  Napoli (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Castellammare di Stabia (inhabited place)  ....................  Castellammare di Stabia (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in ancient times; destroyed in AD 79 by volcanic eruption; eventually rebuilt adjacent to original site
city (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
naval base (C)
port (C)
shipbuilding center (C)  ............  noted as site where bathyscaphe (used for marine exploraton) used by Swiss physicist A Piccard was built
spa center (C)  ............  long famous for fine beaches, hot mineral springs, baths & scenic location
archaeological site (C)  ............  site of Roman ruins & remains of the castle of Holy Roman emperor Frederick II
episcopal see (C)
battlefield (H)  ............  Byzantine general Narses battled Goth Teias here in AD 553; French defeated British & Neapolitans here during French Revolutionary Wars in 1799

Sources and Contributors:
Castellamare di Stabia..........  [VP]
.........................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 931
Castellammare..........  [GRLPSC]
..........................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Castellammare di Stabia..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.........................................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.........................................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
.........................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.........................................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
.........................................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 40
Stabiae..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 161
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8230
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 858-859
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 161
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 931
..................  Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8230
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -114464
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 858-859
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 40
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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