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ID: 7000646
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000646
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ṣabrātah (deserted settlement)  Ṣabrātah (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.7833  decimal degrees
Long: 012 29 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 12.4833  decimal degrees

Note: One of the three cities for which Tripoli region was named; founded by Carthaginians as seasonal trading post and then permanent settlement; declined after Vandal raids; restored by Justinian, but seriously declined after Arab invasion in 7th century.

Names:
Ṣabrātah (preferred,C,V)
Şabrātah (C,V)
Sabratha (C,V)
Sabrata (C,O)
Abrotonum (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ....  Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Tripolitania (province)  ........  Tripolitania (province) (P,H) ca. 46-before 27 BCE
Hierarchy of Ṣabrātah (deserted settlement)  ............  Ṣabrātah (deserted settlement) (P,H)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  settled by Carthaginians
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Abrotonum..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 335
Sabrata..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 798
Ṣabrātah..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 166
Şabrātah..........  [BHA]
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Sabratha..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 779
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 798
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 779
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 166
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 335
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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