Morgantina is an archaeological site in east central Sicily, southern Italy, about sixty kilometres from the coast of the Ionian Sea in the province of Enna. The site consists of a two kilometre long ridge called Serra Orlando and a neighboring hill called Cittadella, and was inhabited across two major periods, from roughly 1000 to 900 BCE at Cittadella and from about 450 BCE to 50 CE at Serra Orlando as part of the wider Magna Graecia world. It has been the subject of archaeological investigation since the early twentieth century, and the closest modern town, Aidone, lies two kilometres to the southwest.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Latitude37.430833 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Morgantina (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 37.430833, longitude 14.479444
P2046 (area)
area 0.045 sq km
View the Source2. Morgantina (Wikipedia)
History section
It was founded during the 3rd century BC, a period of great prosperity for Morgantina, which, from the 5th century BC on had acquired a profoundly Hellenic character.
- In Group: Cities of Southern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 37.4308,14.4794
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevationQuote, results elevation
"elevation": 554.0
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 37.25, 14.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 37.25, 14.25
37.25 14.25 Csa
View the Source 5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, europe zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone Europe/Rome; IT has this one zone in zone1970.tabQuote, Zone Europe/Rome; IT has this one zone in zone1970.tab
Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Dec 12 ... 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT
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