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ID: 7006080
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006080
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Massa Marittima (inhabited place)  Massa Marittima (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 010 53 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.8833  decimal degrees

Elevation:
1246.719  feet    380.0000  meters

Note: Was probably founded by the Etruscans; gained stature in 9th cen., when episcopal see was transferred here from Populonia; destroyed by Saracens in 935; was at war with Pisa & Siena in Middle Ages; was birthplace of St. Bernardino da Siena in 1380.

Names:
Massa Marittima (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Toscana (region (administrative division))  ............  Toscana (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of new kingdom of Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Grosseto (province)  ................  Grosseto (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Massa Marittima (inhabited place)  ....................  Massa Marittima (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was probably an Etruscan center
town (C)
mining center (C)
episcopal see (C)
Etruscan (H)

Related geographic places:
successor of ....  Populonia .......... (inhabited place)
......................  (World, Europe, Italia, Toscana, Livorno province) [7006195]

Sources and Contributors:
Massa Marittima..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.............................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.............................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 634 ff.
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 123
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -121319
..................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 634 ff.
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 123
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)

 

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