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ID: 7013405
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013405
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kronshtadt (inhabited place)  Kronshtadt (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 59 59 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 59.9833  decimal degrees
Long: 029 45 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 29.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Long an important fortification used as naval base to protect St. Petersburg city; site of mutinies 1875-1885 and of Kronsštadt Rebellion 1921, where sailors mutinied against Bolsheviks; though rebellion failed, it led to New Economic Policy of 1921.

Names:
Kronshtadt (preferred,C,V)
Kronštadt (C,V)
Kronshlot (C,V)
Kronstadt (C,O)
Cronstadt (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Leningrad Oblast (oblast)  ............  Leningrad Oblast (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Kronshtadt (inhabited place)  ................  Kronshtadt (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Leningrad Oblast (oblast)  ............  Leningrad Oblast (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Kotlin (island)  ................  Kotlin (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Kronshtadt (inhabited place)  ....................  Kronshtadt (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a fortress in 1710, after Peter the Great captured island from Swedes in 1703
city (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cronstadt..........  [FDA]
....................  CCA Object File
Kronshlot..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 212
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 630
Kronshtadt..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
.......................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 105
Kronstadt..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
Kronštadt..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 490
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 11
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 630
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 212; I, 490
..................  CCA Object File
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 11
..................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 105
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 630
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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