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ID: 1051649
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1051649
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Šiauliai (inhabited place)  Šiauliai (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 55.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 023 20 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.3333  decimal degrees

Note: This site was probably the documented city of Saule, where major battle between Lithuanians & Brothers of the Sword took place in 1236; was important textile center in 18th cen., became center of leather industry in 19th cen.; badly damaged in WW I & II.

Names:
Šiauliai (preferred,C,V)
Siauliai (C,O)
Schaulen (C,O)
Shaulyai (C,O)
Saule (H,V)  ............ historic Saule was probably on this site

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Lietuva (nation)  ........  Lietuva (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Šiaulių Rajono Savivaldybė (municipality)  ............  Šiaulių Rajono Savivaldybė (municipality) (P)
Hierarchy of Šiauliai (inhabited place)  ................  Šiauliai (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled at least by 13th cen.
city (C)
district capital (C)
industrial center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Saule..........  [VP]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 775
Schaulen..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 775
Shaulyai..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 859
Šiauliai..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 645
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 183
Siauliai..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 859
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 645
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 859
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 775
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 183
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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