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ID: 7009964
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009964
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Vaasa (inhabited place)  Vaasa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 63 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 63.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 021 36 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 21.6000  decimal degrees

Note: Founded in 1606 by Swedish King Charles IX; was destroyed by fire in 1852, & rebuilt in a more strategic site 5 miles closer to the sea; was provisional capital of Finland during the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.

Names:
Vaasa (preferred,C,V)
Vasa (C,V)  ............ named for the reigning House of Vasa of Sweden in 1611
Nikolainkaupunki (H,V)  ............ used from 19th cen. until 1917
Nikolaistad (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Finland (nation)  ........  Finland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ostrobothnia Region (region (administrative division))  ............  Ostrobothnia Region (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Vaasa (inhabited place)  ................  Vaasa (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1606, but moved to the sea after a fire in 1852
town (C)
port (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
provincial capital (H)  ............  of the former province of Vaasa until 1998

Sources and Contributors:
Nikolainkaupunki..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 227
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1281
Nikolaistad..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 979
Vaasa..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 206
..............  USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998) 3
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Vasa..........  [VP]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 227
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 979
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 227
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 206
..................  USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998) 3
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1281
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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