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ID: 7010517
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010517
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Székesfehérvár (inhabited place)  Székesfehérvár (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 11 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.1833  decimal degrees
Long: 018 22 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 18.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Strategically located in defensible hinterlands of swamps; Romans established a settlement on site of earlier Celtic village; Hungarian Stephen I made town fortified capital of kingdom in 10th cen.; destroyed by Turks in 17th cen. & by Nazis in 1945.

Names:
Székesfehérvár (preferred,C,V)
Stuhlweissenburg (C,V)
Alba Regia (H,V)  ............ medieval name
Herculea (H,V)  ............ Roman name
Alba regalis (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Hungary (nation)  ........  Hungary (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Fejér (county)  ............  Fejér (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Székesfehérvár (inhabited place)  ................  Székesfehérvár (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established as a Celtic village
town (C)
county seat (C)
national capital (H)  ............  of Hungarian kingdom, 10th-16th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Alba regalis..........  [VP]
.......................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 10
Alba Regia..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 905
Herculea..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 474
Stuhlweissenburg..........  [VP]
.............................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-168
Székesfehérvár..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 905
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 474
.............................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 905
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 474
..................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 10
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-168
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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