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ID: 7005662
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005662
Record Type:
administrative
Vercelli (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 19 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.3167
decimal degrees
Long: 008 25 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.4167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Sesia river; was chief town of the Ligurian Libici people; taken by Rome & noted for two battles nearby, against Hannibal (218 BC) & Cimbri (101 BC); flourished in Middle Ages; went to Milan in 1335, to Savoy in 1427.
Names:
Vercelli
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
וורצ'לי
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Vercellae
(
H
,
V
)
............
Latin name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Piemonte
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Vercelli
(province) (
P
)
....................
Vercelli
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Gallia Transpadana
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Vercelli
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established by Libici people, later was a Roman town
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
............
for rice produced in surrounding district
transportation center (
C
)
............
is major rail junction
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for textiles, chemicals & machinery; also mills flour & processes food
archiepiscopal see (
C
)
............
seat of bishopric from 4th cen., of archbishopric from 1817
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted for architecture, library, archives & museums, was birthplace of the painter Sodoma (1477-1549)
municipium (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
וורצ'לי..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Vercellae..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 313
....................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
12572
Vercelli..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Annuario Generale (1980)
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 313
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
204
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 313
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
12572
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-132049
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
204
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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