Carrara
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- Names
Carrara
Apuania
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on the Carrione river; gained importance as marble-quarrying center, noted for fine white marble suitable for sculpture; was important medieval center; was center of Massa-Carrara principality & duchy (after 1633).
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Annuario Generale (1980); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); NGA/NIMA database (2003-); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998);
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