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ID: 7010011
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010011
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Luni (inhabited place)  Luni (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 03 57 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 009 59 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Frazione on the site of an ancient Etruscan site on the border between Etruria and Liguria, which gave its name to the district of Lunigiana. Contains remains of an elliptical Roman amphitheater dating to the 1st century CE. It destroyed by Saracens in 1016 CE. Luni was famous for its wine and marble quarries.

Names:
Luni (preferred,C,V)
Luna (H,V,S)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italy (nation)  ........  Italy (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Liguria (region (administrative division))  ............  Liguria (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of La Spezia (province)  ................  La Spezia (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Luni (inhabited place)  ....................  Luni (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, H)  ............  Etruscan site; then a Roman colony in 177 BCE; abandoned after Saracen invasion of 1016
frazione (C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavated since reign of Carlo Alberto in 1837
town (H)
Ancient Roman (H)
Etruscan (H)

Related geographic places:
administrative dependent of ....  Ortonovo .......... (inhabited place)
..................................................  (World, Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Massa-Carrara province) [7055521]
located on ....  Via Cassia .......... (road)
..................  (World, Europe, Italy) [6006326]

Sources and Contributors:
Luna..........  [VP]
...........  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 348
Luni..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Annuario Generale (1980)
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 538
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) 32TNP7875079747
...........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 532-533
...........  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-102
...........  TCI: Liguria (1982) 699
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 538
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -120486
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 532-533
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-102
..................  TCI: Liguria (1982) 699
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 348
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)
..........  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)

 

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