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ID: 7010745
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010745

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pojan (inhabited place)  Pojan (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 020 54 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 20.9000  decimal degrees

Note: The commune of Pojan, located south of the ancient city of Apollonia, has around 10,000 inhabitants by an estimate made in the late 1990s. In Byzantine times it was the site of a monastery. In this area people live mainly from small-scale cattle breeding and other agricultural pursuits, such as fruit orchard cultivation and honeybee keeping.

Names:
Pojan (preferred,C,V)
Pojani (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Shqipëria (nation)  ........  Shqipëria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Korçë (county)  ............  Korçë (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Pojan (inhabited place)  ................  Pojan (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
monastery (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Pojan..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 82
Pojani..........  [GRLPSC]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 82
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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