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ID: 6001508
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6001508
Record Type:
administrative
Colossae (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 47 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.7833
decimal degrees
Long: 029 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 29.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
City of ancient Phrygia; was a flourishing commercial center in the 5th cen. BCE; declined after nearby Laodicea was founded; St. Paul's Epistle to the Colossians 62 CE was addressed to the early Christian community here.
Names:
Colossae
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Colosse
(
C
,
V
)
Κολοσσαί
(
C
,
V
,
Greek
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Türkiye
(nation) (
P
)
............
Denizli
(province) (
P
)
................
Colossae
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient town
inhabited place (
H
)
town (
H
)
Phrygian (
H
)
Christian (
H
)
Related geographic places:
possibly identified as ....
Honaz
.......... (inhabited place)
........................................
(World, Asia, Türkiye, Denizli) [1086429]
Sources and Contributors:
Κολοσσαί..........
[
VP
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Colossae..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.................
Nagel's: Turkey (1984)
443-444
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
87, plate 36
Colosse..........
[
VP
]
.................
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Nagel's: Turkey (1984)
443-444
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
87, plate 36
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
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