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Turin (Italy)

LC control no.n 79054009
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingTurin (Italy)
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Geographic subdivision usageItaly--Turin
Variant(s)Turim (Italy)
Torino (Italy)
Augusta Taurinorum (Italy)
Comune di Torino (Italy)
Città di Torino (Italy)
Taurasia (Italy)
Julia Augusta Taurinorum (Italy)
Biography/History noteTurin (or Torino) is a city in Piedmont, Italy. It was first settled as a Roman military camp in the first century B.C. and is the home of the Shroud of Turin.
Beginning date-0026
Associated countryItaly
Associated placePiedmont (Italy)
Special noteOld catalog heading: Turin
Found inA Sagrada face, 1981?: t.p. (Turim, Italia)
Epistola Horatii ad Augustum in morte Maecenatis, 1812: t.p. (Augustae Taurinorum)
Oxford classical dict., 1949 (Augusta Taurinorum, now Torino, Turin)
L'opera dei bambini, 1984: t.p. (Comune di Torino)
GEOnet, January 16, 2013 (Torino--PPL, 45°03ʹN 07°40ʹE; variants: Turin, Taurasia, Julia Augusta Taurinorum, Augusta Taurinorum; Piemonte)
GeoNames search, 7 August 2015 (Conventional name: Turin; apporoved name: Torino--PPL, 45°03ʹN 07°40ʹE; variants: Taurasia, Julia Augusta Taurinorum, Augusta Taurinorum; in Piedmont)
Wikipedia, 7 August 2015 (Turin; Torino; Città di Torino; Augusta Taurinorum; comune, city in Piedmont, Italy; 45° 04' N, 07° 42' E; home of the Shroud of Turin; first settlement was a Roman military camp Castra Taurinorum (later Julia Augusta Taurinorum) established in 27 BC)
Geographic area codee-it---
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