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ID: 7019697
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7019697
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sitka (inhabited place)  Sitka (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 57 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 57.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 135 19 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -135.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Baranof Island in SE Alaska; was Russian America's most important town; began as a Russian fort which was destroyed by Tlingit Indians in 1802; transferred to USA in 1867 and became capital of Alaska, eventually replaced by Juneau in 1900.

Names:
Sitka (preferred,C,V)
Fort Archangel Gabriel (H,V)
New Archangel (H,V)
Novo-Arkhangelsk (H,V)
U. S. Old Sitka (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Alaska (state)  ............  Alaska (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Sitka (national division)  ................  Sitka (national division) (P)
Hierarchy of Sitka (inhabited place)  ....................  Sitka (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1799 as Russian settlement by Aleksandr Baranov, the 1st Russian Governor of Alaska
cultural center (C)  ............  site of Saint Michael's Cathedral (1848) & a museum housing Russian & Amerindian mementos
educational center (C)  ............  site of Sheldon Jackson Junior College & Sitka Community College
fish-processing center (C)
manufacturing center (C)  ............  for canning & lumber
tourist center (C)  ............  for nearby Sitka Historical Park & a mountain-framed harbor
town (C)  ............  incorporated in 1920
capital (H)  ............  of Alaska Territory from 1867 to 1900

Sources and Contributors:
Fort Archangel Gabriel..........  [VP]
.........................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 849
New Archangel..........  [FDA]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
Novo-Arkhangelsk..........  [FDA]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
Sitka..........  [FDA, VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 2:868
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 10:849
..............  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..............  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS2020555
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1121
U. S. Old Sitka..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 849
Subject: .....  [FDA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 868; 2:868
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 849; 10:849
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS2020555
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1121
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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