Tarquinia
Tarquinia is a town in Lazio, Italy. At first site it looks like a miniature version of San Gimignano with its medieval towers but the main reason for visiting is that it has fascinating Etruscan tombs with wall paintings, as well as a good museum on the Etruscans.
Photo: Alfone45, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 16,500 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Ταρκουίνια”
- Neighbors: Civitavecchia and Tuscania
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tomb of Orcus and Tarquinia National Museum.
Tarquinia
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Viterbo, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.2532° or 42° 15′ 12″ north
Longitude
11.7592° or 11° 45′ 33″ east
Population
16,500
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IT TRQ
Open location code
8FJH7Q35+7M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Tarquinia” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Tarchonion”
- Arabic: “تاركوينيا”
- Aragonese: “Tarquinia”
- Armenian: “Տարկվինիա”
- Asturian: “Tarquinia”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarkviniya”
- Basque: “Tarquinia”
- Belarusian: “Тарквінія”
- Belarusian: “Таркуйнія”
- Breton: “Tarquinia”
- Bulgarian: “Тарквиния”
- Catalan: “Tarquínia”
- Cebuano: “Tarquinia”
- Central Bikol: “Tarquinia”
- Chechen: “Таркуйни”
- Chinese: “塔尔奎尼亚”
- Chinese: “塔爾奎尼亞”
- Czech: “Tarquinia”
- Danish: “Tarquinia”
- Dutch: “Tarquinia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاركوينيا”
- Esperanto: “Tarquinia”
- Etruscan: “Tarchuna”
- Finnish: “Tarquinia”
- French: “Tarquinia”
- Galician: “Tarquinia”
- Georgian: “ტარკვინია”
- German: “Tarquinia”
- Greek: “Ταρκίνια”
- Greek: “Ταρκυνία”
- Hebrew: “טרקוויניה”
- Hindi: “टेरक्विनिआ”
- Hungarian: “Tarquinia”
- Indonesian: “Tarquinia”
- Interlingua: “Tarquinia”
- Irish: “Tarquinia”
- Italian: “Corneto” (historical)
- Italian: “Tarquinia”
- Japanese: “タルクイーニア”
- Kazakh: “Таркуйния”
- Korean: “타르퀴니아”
- Kurdish: “Tarquinia”
- Ladin: “Tarquinia”
- Latin: “Cornetum” (historical)
- Latin: “Tarquinii”
- Latvian: “Tarkvīnija”
- Ligurian: “Tarquinia”
- Lithuanian: “Tarkvinija”
- Lombard: “Tarquinia”
- Malay: “Tarquinia”
- Malayalam: “ടാർക്വിനി”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tarquinia”
- Neapolitan: “Tarquinia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarquinia”
- Norwegian: “Tarquinia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarquinia”
- Persian: “تارکوئینیا”
- Persian: “تارکوینیا”
- Piemontese: “Tarquinia”
- Polish: “Tarquinia”
- Portuguese: “Tarquinia”
- Romanian: “Tarquinia”
- Russian: “Тарквинии”
- Russian: “Тарквиния”
- Serbian: “Тарквинија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarquinia, Viterbo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarquinia”
- Sicilian: “Tarquinia”
- Slovak: “Tarquinia”
- Slovenian: “Tarkvinija”
- Slovenian: “Tarquinia”
- South Azerbaijani: “تارکوینیا”
- Spanish: “Tarquinia”
- Swedish: “Tarquinia”
- Swiss German: “Tarquinia”
- Swiss German: “Tarquinii”
- Tagalog: “Tarquinia”
- Tatar: “Таркуйния”
- Turkish: “Tarquinia”
- Ukrainian: “Тарквінія”
- Ukrainian: “Таркуїнія”
- Urdu: “طارقوینیا”
- Uzbek: “Tarquinia”
- Venetian: “Tarquinia”
- Vietnamese: “Tarquinia”
- Volapük: “Tarquinia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tarquinia”
- Wu Chinese: “塔尔奎尼亚”
- Yue Chinese: “特基尼亞”
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