Gnatia
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Gnatia, Egnatia or Ignatia () was an ancient city of the Messapii, and their frontier town towards the Salentini. As Egnazia Appula, it was a medieval bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Gnatia
- Ancient site.image
- Image:PICT0504.JPG
- Ancient site.caption
- View of Gnatia and acropolis behind
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Fasano, Province of Brindisi, Apulia, Italy
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.designation1_free1name
- Region
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.child
- yes
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Part_of
- Via Appia. Regina Viarum
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.ID
- 1708-019
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Year
- 2024
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Criteria
- Cultural: iii, iv, vi
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lost city
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Fasano
- Official website
- www.egnazia.eu
- Image
- Egnazia from the sky.jpg
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- Commons category
- Egnazia
- Commons gallery
- Egnazia
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- culture
- Messapii
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Ruins
- Ecclesiastical history
- Titular see
- See also
- Notes
- Sources
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
Gnatia, Egnatia or Ignatia () was an ancient city of the Messapii, and their frontier town towards the Salentini. As Egnazia Appula, it was a medieval bishopric, which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
It is located near the modern Fasano, in Salento, the southern part of Puglia (Apulia) region in southern Italy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gnatia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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