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Ancón Reserved Zone
Ancón may refer to: Places Antiquity *Ancon (Picenum), town of ancient Picenum, now in Italy *Ancon (Pontus), town of ancient Pontus, now in Turkey Ecuador *Ancón, Ecuador, a city in Guayas, Ecuador Panama *Ancón, Panama, a city in central Panama *Ancon Hill, a hill overlooking Panama City Peru *Ancon (archaeological site) *Ancón District, a district of Peru Ships *, a sidewheel paddle steamer that was wrecked in Alaska in 1889 *''Ancon'' (1894), a steel-hulled three-masted barque that was scrapped in 1921 *, the first steamship officially to transit the Panama Canal in 1914 *, a 1939 steamship that was a AGC-4 troopship Other *Treaty of Ancón, signed by Peru and Chile on 20 October 1883 *ANCON, a conservation group in Panama *Ancon, a UK company that makes steel products for the construction industry *Ancon sheep, an extinct breed of sheep {{Disambig, ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancon (Picenum)
Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic Sea, between the slopes of the two extremities of the promontory of Monte Conero, Monte Astagno and Monte Guasco. Ancona is one of the main ports on the Adriatic Sea, especially for passenger traffic, and is the main economic and demographic centre of the region. History Greek colony Ancona was populated as a region by Picentes since the 6th century BC who also developed a small town there. Ancona took a more urban shape by Greek settlers from Syracuse in about 387 BC, who gave it its name: ''Ancona'' stems from the Greek word (''Ankṓn''), meaning "elbow"; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow. Greek merchants established a Tyrian purple dye factory h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
