The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help

Vernacular Display | English Display

Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View (JSON, JSONLD, RDF, N3/Turtle, N-Triples)

ID: 7005773
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005773
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Turda (inhabited place)  Turda (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 023 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by the Dacians; taken over as a Roman camp; Romans mined salt near here; was meeting place of the Transylvanian diet during the Middle Ages; modern town is an industrial center & tourist center for the Turda Gorges, a nearby geological feature.

Names:
Turda (preferred,C,V)
Torda (C,O)
Thorenburg (C,O)
Potaissa (H,O)  ............ name of the Roman castrum
Dierna (H,O)  ............ name of the Dacian settlement

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Romania (nation)  ........  Romania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cluj (county)  ............  Cluj (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Turda (inhabited place)  ................  Turda (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originally a Dacian settlement
town (C)
industrial center (C)
tourist center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Dierna..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 952
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 50
Potaissa..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 50
Thorenburg..........  [BHA]
.......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Torda..........  [VP]
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-177
Turda..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Nagel's: Rumania (1968) 185
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 202
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 952
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 50
..................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968) 185
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-177
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 202
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust

© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / Contact Us