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ID: 7008407
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008407
Record Type:
administrative
Swansea (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 003 58 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on mouth of Tawe River; small market town until early 18th cen., when coal & copper industry began; tin, zinc lead, nickel also mined & processed; canal built in 1798 & railway constructed in 19th cen.; birthplace of poet Dylan Thomas.
Names:
Swansea
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Abertawe
(
C
,
V
,
Welsh
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wales
(country) (
P
)
................
Swansea
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Swansea
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
once occupied by Romans
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Abertawe..........
[
VP
]
.................
Blue Guide: Wales (1979)
432
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Swansea..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI,432
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
192
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Blue Guide: Wales (1979)
432
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI,432
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2609220
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
192
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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