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ID: 7005771
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005771
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sirmione (inhabited place)  Sirmione (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 010 36 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.6000  decimal degrees

Elevation:
223.097  feet    68.0000  meters

Note: The first traces of human presence in the area date from the 6th-5th millennia BCE. Famous as site of a large villa built in 1st cen. CE, on site of an earlier villa built in 1st cen. BCE; noted for several fountains, cisterns & porticos, as well as frescos in Second & Fourth styles of Roman painting.

Names:
Sirmione (preferred,C,V)
Sermione (C,V)
Sirmio (H,V,S)  ............ ancient

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled by the 1st cen. BCE
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Sermione..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sirmio..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8834
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Sirmione..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 843
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 181
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8834
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -129795
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 843
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 181
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)

 

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