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ID: 1051230
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1051230
Record Type:
administrative
Cheboksary (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 56 08 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 56.1333
decimal degrees
Long: 047 12 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 47.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on right bank of Volga River; known to have existed in mid-15th cen. & a fortress was built here in 1555; town remained remote until railway connection with Kanash in 1939; industries range from textile to heavy tractor manufacturing.
Names:
Cheboksary
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Čeboksary
(
C
,
V
)
Cheboksar’
(
C
,
U
)
Tscheboksary
(
C
,
U
)
Чебоксары
(
C
,
U
,
Russian-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Russia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Chuvashiya Republic
(republic) (
P
)
................
Cheboksary
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled as early as mid-15th cen.
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Чебоксары..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2896432
Čeboksary..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 144
....................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-32
Cheboksar’..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2896432
Cheboksary..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2896432
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
44
Tscheboksary..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2896432
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 144
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2896432
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-32
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
44
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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