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ID: 1052645
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1052645

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 38 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.6333  decimal degrees
Long: 036 36 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 36.6000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Upper Donets River; was 16th-cen. stronghold in Belgorod defense line, set up to protect S Russian border from Tatar attacks; maintained military significance until late 18th cen.; under German occupation 1941-1943.

Names:
Belgorod (preferred,C,V,O)
Byelgorod (C,V)
Белгород (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 Belgorodskaya Oblast’ (oblast)  ............  Belgorodskaya Oblast’ (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Belgorod (inhabited place)  ................  Belgorod (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  archaelogical evidence indicates settlement as early as 10th cen.
city (C)  ............  first documented as town in chronicles of 1237
regional capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Белгород..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2883930
Belgorod..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 91
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 63
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2883930
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 25
Byelgorod..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 91
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 91
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 63
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2883930
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 25
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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