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ID: 7594277
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7594277
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Poggio Civitate (neighborhood)  Poggio Civitate (neighborhood)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 011 23 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 11.3833  decimal degrees

Elevation:
964.566  feet    294.0000  meters

Note: Hill within the town of Murlo, the site of an early monumental Archaic Etruscan sanctuary dating ca. 650 BCE & other ancient structures. DNA of individuals from this site suggest derivation from the East rather than the Italian peninsula, lending credence to Herodotus' attribution of Lydian origin to the Etruscans.

Names:
Poggio Civitate (preferred,C,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 Tuscany (region (administrative division))  ............  Tuscany (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of new kingdom of Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Siena (province)  ................  Siena (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Murlo (inhabited place)  ....................  Murlo (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Poggio Civitate (neighborhood)  ........................  Poggio Civitate (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)  ............  structures here date to at least 7th cen. BC
hill settlement (H)
Etruscan (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Poggio Civitate..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.............................  Ancient World, Archaeology (1995) G
.............................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8269
.............................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Ancient World, Archaeology (1995) G
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 8269
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -122846
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

 

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