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ID: 7004127
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004127
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hunedoara (inhabited place)  Hunedoara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 022 54 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 22.9000  decimal degrees

Note: Romans knew of nearby iron ore deposits in Poiana Ruscăi mountains; citadel was built here by 13th cen.; Matthias I Corvinus built famous Hunyadi castle in 1453 on ruins of earlier citadel; city grew when iron- & steelworks were developed after 1884.

Names:
Hunedoara (preferred,C,V)
Eisenmarkt (C,O)
Vajdahunyad (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of România (nation)  ........  România (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Hunedoara (county)  ............  Hunedoara (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Hunedoara (inhabited place)  ................  Hunedoara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town grew up near castle, probably in 13th cen.
city (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Eisenmarkt..........  [BHA]
.......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Hunedoara..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 402
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 150
....................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 87
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Vajdahunyad..........  [BHA]
.......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 402
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 150
..................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 87
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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