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![Hierarchy of Cefalù (inhabited place)](/global/images/global_hierarchy.gif) |
Cefalù (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 38 02 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.0333 decimal degrees |
Long: 014 01 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 14.0167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in strategic site high above the Tyrrhenian Sea; was walled by 6th century BCE; allied with Carthage ca. 395; conquered by Syracuse; went to Rome 254 BCE; captured by Moors 858 CE; famed for 12th-century cathedral. |
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Cefalù (preferred,C,V,English,U,N)
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Cefalù (Italian-P,U,N)
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Cefalú (C,V,English-P,U,N)
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Cephaloedium (H,V)
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Cephaloedis (C,V)
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Kephaloidion (H,V)
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Κεφαλοίδιον (C,V,Greek,U)
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Κεφαλοιδὶς (C,V,Greek,U)
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Sicilia (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of unified Italy from 1861 |
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Cefalù (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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settled in ancient times |
town (C) |
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tourist center (C) |
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quarrying center (C) |
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for marble |
archaeological site (C) |
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