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ID: 7004042
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004042
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Isaccea (inhabited place)  Isaccea (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 17 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.2833  decimal degrees
Long: 028 19 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 28.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Was principal station of the Roman fleet on the lower Danube; was important military & commercial center in Roman & Byzantine times; noted as site where peace between emperor Valens & Visigoth Athanaric was concluded just offshore on shipboard.

Names:
Isaccea (preferred,C,V)
Noviodunum (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Romania (nation)  ........  Romania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tulcea (county)  ............  Tulcea (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Isaccea (inhabited place)  ................  Isaccea (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was important Roman military center
town (C)
archaeological site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Isaccea..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968) 307
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 90
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Noviodunum..........  [BHA, VP]
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 631
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968) 307
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 631
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 90
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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