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ID: 7006628 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006628			Record Type: administrative

Narva (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 59 22 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 59.3667 decimal degrees
Long: 028 17 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 28.2833 decimal degrees

Note: Located on Narva river near its outfall into the Gulf of Finland; flourished as commercial center in Middle Ages; occupied by Russia in 16th cen., then by Sweden; noted as site of Swedes defeat of Peter I the Great in 1700 & his victory in 1704.

Names:

Narva (preferred,C,V,English-P)

Narwa (C,O)

נרווה (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Europe (continent) (P)

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Eesti (nation) (P)

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Ida-Virumaa (county) (P)

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Narva (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded in 13th cen.
city (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

נרווה..........	[IMJ]
..............	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Narva..........	[IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
..............	Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 592
..............	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..............	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 136

Narwa..........	[VP]
..............	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 518

Subject: .....	[IMJ, VP]
..................	Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 592
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 518
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 136


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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