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ID: 7012980
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012980
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Piran (inhabited place)  Piran (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 013 36 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.6000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Gulf of Venice; was probably established by late Antiquity; became an important medieval center; was site of important victory of Venetian fleet over fleet of Frederick Barbarossa & the Genoese in 1177; was ruled by Venice from 1283.

Names:
Piran (preferred,C,V)
Pirano (C,V)
Piranon (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Slovenia (nation)  ........  Slovenia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Piran (municipality)  ............  Piran (municipality) (P)
Hierarchy of Piran (inhabited place)  ................  Piran (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  probably founded in late Antiquity
town (C)
district capital (C)
seaport (C)
battlefield (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Piran..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  TCI: Friuli-Venezia Guilia (1982) 212
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 154
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 957
Pirano..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  TCI: Friuli-Venezia Guilia (1982) 212
Piranon..........  [VP]
.................  TCI: Friuli-Venezia Guilia (1982) 213
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  TCI: Friuli-Venezia Guilia (1982) 212; 213
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 154
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 957
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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