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ID: 1050224
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050224
Record Type:
administrative
Petroșeni (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 023 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 23.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on a tributary of the Jiu river; serves as principle city & cultural center for Jiu valley coalfields; famous because of its description in the work of fiction writer Jules Verne.
Names:
Petroșeni
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Petroșani
(
C
,
V
)
Petrozsény
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Romania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Hunedoara
(county) (
P
)
................
Petroșeni
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 17th cen.
city (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Petroșani..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 346
Petroșeni..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
152
Petrozsény..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-134
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 346
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-134
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
152
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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