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ID: 7010341
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010341
Record Type:
administrative
Kursk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 036 14 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 36.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
One of nation's oldest cities; sacked by Tatars 1240 & not rebuilt until 1586; lost much of its power when Russian border moved S in 18th cen.; was site of largest tank battle of WW II in 1943; today is site of a large nuclear power plant.
Names:
Kursk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Курск
(
C
,
U
,
Russian-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rossija
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kurskaya Oblast’
(oblast) (
P
)
................
Kursk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
became a town in ca. 11th cen.
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
power production center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Курск..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2941648
Kursk..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 492
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 44
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2941648
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
106
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 492
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 44
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2941648
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
106
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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