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ID: 7008997
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008997
Record Type:
administrative
Inverness (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 57 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 57.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 004 14 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated astride Caledonian Canal on River Ness; Inverness Castle built in 11th cen. by Malcolm III, occupied by Jacobites in 1715 & in 1746; castle rebuilt in 19th cen.; economy based on offshore oil, textile & food processing industries.
Names:
Inverness
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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Scotland
(country) (
P
)
................
Highland
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Inverness
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled at least by 6th cen.
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of the Pictish kingdom of King Brude ca. 565
Sources and Contributors:
Inverness..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
....................
Blue Guide: Scotland (1980)
348
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 417
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
89
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Blue Guide: Scotland (1980)
348
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 417
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2599537
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
89
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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