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ID: 1054086
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1054086
Record Type:
administrative
Gori (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 044 05 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Kura river; was an ancient center; was fortress for Armenians in 12th century; was destroyed by Nadir Shah of Persia in 18th century; noted as birthplace of Joseph Stalin (1879-1953, dictator of the USSR.
Names:
Gori
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
............
name documented in 12th cen.
גורי
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Tontio
(
H
,
V
)
............
name documented in 7th cen. AD
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Georgia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Shida Kartli
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Gori
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
documented in 7th cen.
town (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
גורי..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gori..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 342
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
76
Tontio..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 342
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 342
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
76
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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