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ID: 7006270
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006270
Record Type:
administrative
Reykjavík (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 64 09 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 64.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 021 58 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -21.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by the Norseman Ingólfur Arnarson in 9th cen.; was small fishing village ruled and inhabited by Danes until 18th cen., when it became the center of the Danish-ruled island; is major commercial and cultural center of the nation.
Names:
Reykjavík
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ísland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Reykjavík
(municipality) (
P
)
................
Reykjavík
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 874, granted municipal powers in 1786
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
of self-governing Iceland, since 1918
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Ísland
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Europe) [1000077]
Sources and Contributors:
Reykjavík..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Bonniers Folklexikon (1951-1953)
....................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
618
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 12
....................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
164
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Bonniers Folklexikon (1951-1953)
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
618
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 12
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
164
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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