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ID: 1030980
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1030980
Record Type:
administrative
Wallsend (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 59 29 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.9914
decimal degrees
Long: 001 33 35 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.5597
decimal degrees
Note:
Formed the eastern-most fort along Hadrian's Wall; known as a modern center for engineering.
Names:
Wallsend
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Wallsend-on-Tyne
(
NA
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Segedunum
(
H
,
V
)
............
Roman name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Tyne and Wear
(county) (
P
)
....................
North Tyneside
(borough) (
P
)
........................
Wallsend
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Britannia
(province) (
P
)
............
Wallsend
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
built by Romans for Hadrian's Wall
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
shipbuilding center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
noted for manufacture of glass
fortification (
H
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Segedunum..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/09/2001
Wallsend..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
212
Wallsend-on-Tyne..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/09/2001
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2610805
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
212
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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