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ID: 7004560
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004560
Record Type:
administrative
Kōbe (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 135 12 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 135.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located along N shore of Ōsaka Bay; is famed as ancient cultural & religious center; Hiogo was prominent port of Ashikaga period 14th-16th cen. under powerful shogunate; flourished 19th cen.; damaged in WW II; devastated by earthquake in 1995.
Names:
Kōbe
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kobe
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
קובה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nihon
(nation) (
P
)
............
Hyōgo
(prefecture) (
P
)
................
Kōbe
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
ancient port thrived from 14th cen.; Kōbe absorbed Hyōgo in 1878
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
manufactures steel, rubber, textiles & books
educational center (
C
)
shipbuilding center (
C
)
fishing community (
H
)
............
until Restoration, 1868
Sources and Contributors:
קובה..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Kōbe..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 484
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
102
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
619
Kobe..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
Death Toll, New York Times (1995)
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 484
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Death Toll, New York Times (1995)
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
102
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
619
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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