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ID: 7014758
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014758
Record Type:
administrative
Biysk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 35 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 085 16 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 85.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on right bank of Biya River; linked by highway to Mongolia; economy based of food-processing & engineering.
Names:
Biysk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bijsk
(
C
,
V
)
Biisk
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Russia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Altay Republic
(kray) (
P
)
................
Biysk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a fortress in 1709
town (
C
)
............
since 1782
Sources and Contributors:
Biisk..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 247
Bijsk..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 247
Biysk..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 247
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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