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ID: 7006308
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006308
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Montecatini Terme (inhabited place)  Montecatini Terme (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 53 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.8833  decimal degrees
Long: 010 46 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.7667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on thermal mineral springs & baths; famous as site of defeat of Florence by Uguccione della Faggiuola of Pisa in 1315, in wars between Black & White factions of Guelphs; mineral baths were constructed in 14th cen. & town became a spa center.

Names:
Montecatini Terme (preferred,C,V)
Montecatini-Terme (C,V)
Montecatini (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tuscany (region (administrative division))  ............  Tuscany (region (administrative division)) (P,C) part of new kingdom of Italy from 1861
Hierarchy of Pistoia (province)  ................  Pistoia (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Montecatini Terme (inhabited place)  ....................  Montecatini Terme (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was probably known in Antiquity; was a medieval spa center
town (C)
resort center (C)
spa center (C)
battlefield (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Montecatini..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 615
.......................  Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)
Montecatini-Terme..........  [GRLPSC]
................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Montecatini Terme..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
................................  Annuario Generale (1980)
................................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
................................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 208 ff.
................................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 130
................................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 615
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -122250
..................  TCI: Toscana (1984) 208 ff.
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 130
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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