Teramo (Italy)

LC control no.	n 80001032
Geographic heading	Teramo (Italy) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Italy--Teramo
Found in	GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 42°39ʹ54ʺN 013°43ʹ04ʺE) Interamna Praetuttianorum, c2010: p. 26 (Interamna Praetuttianorum [no publs in LC database] ancient name of Teramo) p. 27 (Interamnia Praetuttiorum [no publs in LC database]) Wikipedia, Aug. 9, 2010 (Teramo; city and comune in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo; Interamna was the name of several cities in different parts of Italy; its etymology indicates their position at the confluence of two streams; name referred to the two rivers Vezzola and Tordino, between which it lies; the name is corrupted in extant manuscripts of the Liber Coloniarum into Teramne, whence its modern form of Teramo; in the Middle Ages it appears to have been known also by the name of Aprutium [no publs in LC database]; Teramo has very ancient origins; 290 BC: city takes its latin name of Interamnia Preatuttorium (City of the Preaetutii between two rivers) GEOnet, Aug. 9, 2010 (Teramo--PPL, 42°39ʹN 13°42ʹE; Abruzzo Province)
Geographic area code	e-it---