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ID: 1064793
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1064793
Record Type:
administrative
Port Talbot (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 003 47 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Bristol Channel in Afan Valley; dock built in 1837, but economy based mostly on steelmaking since large Margam Abbey Works opened in 1947; coal trade, once important, eliminated by 1953; also a popular seaside resort.
Names:
Port Talbot
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Aberavon
(
C
,
O
)
Aberavonium
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Europe
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
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Wales
(country) (
P
)
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County Borough of Neath Port Talbot
(unitary authority) (
P
)
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Port Talbot
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Aberavon..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-1
Aberavonium..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
2
Port Talbot..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 623-624
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 623-624
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2605653
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
2
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-1
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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