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ID: 7010246
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010246
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Penza (inhabited place)  Penza (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 11 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.1833  decimal degrees
Long: 045 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 45.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Located at confluence of Penza & Sura rivers; formed W end of Syzran defense line after 1684; seized by Bolsheviks 1918; long important as grain supplier to Moscow; machinery, diesel engine & bicycle manufacturing began after Communist Revolution.

Names:
Penza (preferred,C,V,O)
Pensa (C,U)
Пенза (C,U,Russian-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Rossija (nation)  ........  Rossija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Penzenskaya Oblast' (oblast)  ............  Penzenskaya Oblast' (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Penza (inhabited place)  ................  Penza (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a major fortress in 1666
city (C)
regional capital (C)
agricultural center (C)
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Пенза..........  [VP]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2979687
Pensa..........  [VP]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2979687
Penza..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 725
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 270
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2979687
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 152
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 725
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 270
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2979687
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 152
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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