Milan
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- Names
Milano
Milan
Milanese
Mediolanium
Mediolanum
Mediolanum Insubrum
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- One of nation's richest cities; became the second city of the western Roman Empire after Rome; sacked by Attila the Hun in 452 and by Goths in 539; battled for autonomy with nearby cities 11th-12th centuries; controlled by Sforza family 15th century and by Spain 1540-1706; won independence from Austria in 1848; heavily bombed during World War II.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995); Annuario Generale (1980); Blue Guide: Northern Italy (1978); Blue Guide: Northern Italy (1984); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); Gallerie degli Uffizi database (1987-); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1989); Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-)...
- Born
- Active
Kevin G. Fletcher (American, born 1956)
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