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ID: 7010097
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010097
Record Type:
administrative
Vyborg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 60 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 60.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 028 41 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.6833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Gulf of Finland; member of Hanseatic League by 14th cen.; captured by Peter the Great in 1710; included in Finland under Russian sovereignty in 1812 & under complete Finnish control 1918-1940; ceded back to Russia in 1947.
Names:
Vyborg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Viborg
(
C
,
O
)
Viipuri
(
C
,
O
)
Wyborg
(
C
,
O
)
Vipuri
(
C
,
U
)
Wiborg
(
C
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rossija
(nation) (
P
)
............
Leningradskaya Oblast'
(oblast) (
P
)
................
Vyborg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a fortress by Swedes in 1293
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Viborg..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3037083
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994)
I-185
Viipuri..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3037083
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994)
I-185
Vipuri..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3037083
Vyborg..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1005
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 440
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3037083
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
211
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Wiborg..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3037083
Wyborg..........
[
BHA
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1005
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 440
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3037083
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994)
I-185
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
211
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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