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ID: 7018000
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018000
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Foça (inhabited place)  Foça (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 38 40 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 38.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 026 45 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 26.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Aegean Sea; was flourishing Ionian commercial & maritime center in early 1st mill. BC; undertook colonizing expeditions, founding Massilia (Marseilles) & other cities; was famed for purple dye & coins; captured by Persians in 540 BC.

Names:
Foça (preferred,C,V)
Foca (C,V)
Phocaea (H,V)
Phokaia (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Türkiye (nation)  ........  Türkiye (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of İzmir (province)  ............  İzmir (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Foça (inhabited place)  ................  Foça (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was important Ionian center
town (C)
archaeological site (C)
colony (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Foca..........  [VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 735
Foça..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 67
Phocaea..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
Phokaia..........  [VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 708-709
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 735
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 708-709
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 67
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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