Noto
a Pleiades
name
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jonathan Prag
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History
Noto
Noto
Italian
geographic name
accurate
complete
Certain
- Modern (AD 1700-Present) (confident)
Pleiades
Neaition/Netum is listed as "Noto" in the BTCGI. Other sources (such as Manni 1981 and the Barrington Atlas) identify more precisely the area of Old Noto ("Noto antica" or "Noto vecchia"), northwest of modern Noto. The old town was destroyed by an earthquake and mostly abandoned in 1693.