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ID: 7010166
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010166
Record Type:
administrative
Kaluga (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 036 16 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 36.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as stronghold against the Tatars on S border of Muscovy; devastated by Cossacks in early 17th cen., fire & plague; held by Nazis during winter of 1941; industries include turbines, railway equipment & foodstuffs.
Names:
Kaluga
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Kalyga
(
C
,
U
)
Калуга
(
C
,
U
,
Russian-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Russia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kaluga Oblast
(oblast) (
P
)
................
Kaluga
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a Muscovite outpost in 1389
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Калуга..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2919283
Kaluga..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 457
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 699
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2919283
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
Kalyga..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2919283
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 457
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 699
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2919283
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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