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Thessaly (Greece)

Περιφέρεια Θεσσαλίας (Greece)


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  • Variants

    • Periféreia Thessalías (Greece)
    • Periphereia Thessalías (Greece)
    • Region of Thessaly (Greece)
    • Thessalia (Greece)
    • Θεσσαλία (Greece)
    • Περιφέρεια Θεσσαλίας (Greece)
    • Thessalien (Greece)
    • Thessalie (Greece)
    • Tessalia (Greece)
    • Tesalia (Greece)
    • Periferia de Tesalia (Greece)
    • Petthalía (Greece)
    • Πετθαλία (Greece)

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    • Descriptor

        Region

    • Associated Locale

        Greece

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  • Sources

    • found: Hē Thessalia me tē graphida tōn periēgētōn, 2011:t.p. (Θεσσαλία = Thessalia)
    • found: Greece : a country study, 1995:p. 93 (Thessaly)
    • found: Britannica online, Mar. 30, 2012(Thessaly)
    • found: GEOnet, Mar. 30, 2012:(Periféreia Thessalías -- first-order administrative division 39°28ʹ00ʺN 022°05ʹ00ʺE; variants: Periphereia Thessalias [in Greek]; Region of Thessaly; Thessaly)
    • found: Wikipedia, Mar. 30, 2012:Thessaly ("Since 1987 it has formed one of the country's 13 regions [administrative divisions] ...")
    • found: Lorenz, Bernd. Griechische Grabgedichte Thessaliens, 2019:title page (Grabgedichte Thessaliens) page 19 (Thessalien; one of the core regions of Greece and Greek culture, with stable borders over a long period) page 33 (la Thessalie)
    • found: GEOnet, 3 June 2019(name: Thessalía (approved and short), Periféreia Thessalías (approved); non-Roman script: Περιφέρεια Θεσσαλίας = Periféreia Thessalías, Θεσσαλία = Thessalía; Anglicized variants: Region of Thessaly, Thessaly; geopolitical entity name: Greece; latitude, longitude: DMS: 39° 28ʹ 00ʺ N 022° 05ʹ 00ʺ E; DD: 39.46667, 22.08333; feature designation: first-order administrative division; feature class: administrative regions)
    • found: Getty thesaurus of geographic names online, 4 June 2019:Thessaly (region (administrative division)) (Thessaly (region (administrative division)); names: Thessalía (preferred), Thessalia, Thessaly, Thessalie, Tessalia; nation: Greece; place types: region (administrative division) (preferred), first level subdivision; ID: 7001399) - http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001399
    • found: Wikipedia, 3 June 2019(Thessaly; Greek: Θεσσαλία, Thessalía; ancient Thessalian: Πετθαλία, Petthalía; a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece, comprising most of the ancient region of the same name; since 1987, one of the country's 13 regions; since the Kallikratis reform of 2010, further subdivided into 5 regional units -- Karditsa, Larissa, Magnesia, the Sporades, and Trikala -- which are in turn subdivided into 25 municipalities; capital: Larissa; in northern Greece; supervised by the Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece; coordinates: DMS: 39° 36ʹ 0ʺ N, 22° 12ʹ 0ʺ E; Decimal: 39.6, 22.2)
    • found: Wikidata, 3 June 2019(Thessaly (Q166919); also known as: Tesalia (Spanish), Tesalio [entry name in Esperanto Wikipedia], Periferia de Tesalia, Thessalia; description: geographic region of Greece; instance of: geographic region, historical region; country: Greece; capital: Larissa; coordinate location: 39°36ʹN, 22°12ʹE; 39°30ʹN, 22°0ʹE) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q166919

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  • Change Notes

    • 2012-03-30: new
    • 2019-06-05: revised

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