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ID: 7002605
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002605
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Nusaybin (inhabited place)  Nusaybin (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.0833  decimal degrees
Long: 041 11 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 41.1833  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient frontier fortress and trading center; residence of kings of Armenia from the 2nd century BCE to the 2nd century CE; a center of Nestorian Christianity; site of battle in 1839, when Egyptians defeated Turks.

Names:
Nusaybin (preferred,C,V)
Nisibi (C,V)
Nisibis (H,V)  ............ ancient
Nisibin (H,V)
Antioch Nisibis (H,V)
Nesibin (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mardin (province)  ............  Mardin (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Nusaybin (inhabited place)  ................  Nusaybin (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since ancient times
town (C)
fortified settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Antioch Nisibis..........  [VP]
.............................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Nesibin..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Nisibi..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Nisibin..........  [VP]
.................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Nisibis..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5177
Nusaybin..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 143
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5177
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 143
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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