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ID: 1079239
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1079239
Record Type:
administrative
Qūchān (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 058 29 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 58.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Mainly populated by descendants of a Zaʻfarānlū Kurdish tribe who were resettled here by Shāh ʻAbbās I in 1600s; surrounding area contains vineyards & field of grain; town has been repeatedly damaged by earthquakes.
Names:
Qūchān
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
,
Persian-Farsi (transliterated)-P
)
Quchan
(
C
,
V
)
Kuchan
(
C
,
V
)
Gochan
(
C
,
U
)
قوچان
(
C
,
U
,
Persian-Farsi-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Iran
(nation) (
P
)
............
Khorāsān-e Raẕavī
(province) (
P
)
................
Qūchān
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
current town dates from 1895
town (
C
)
seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
قوچان..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3080451
Gochan..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3080451
Kuchan..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 846
Qūchān..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 846
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3080451
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Quchan..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
157
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 846
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3080451
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
157
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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