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ID: 7012983
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012983
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Koper (inhabited place)  Koper (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 013 44 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.7333  decimal degrees

Note: SW of Trieste; formerly was an island; construction of causeway 1825 & drainage systems link island to mainland; taken by Venetians from Aquileia patriarchs 1279; under control of Napoleonic France 1797-1813, Austrian Empire 1813-1918 & then Italy.

Names:
Koper (preferred,C,V)
Capodistria (C,V)
Capris (H,V)  ............ ancient Roman

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Slovenija (nation)  ........  Slovenija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Koper (municipality)  ............  Koper (municipality) (P)
Hierarchy of Koper (inhabited place)  ................  Koper (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was flourishing center by Middle Ages
city (C)
district capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Capodistria..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 953
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Capris..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 953
Koper..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 953
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 103
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 953
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 103
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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