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ID: 7002620
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002620
Record Type:
administrative
Sinop (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 01 37 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.0268
decimal degrees
Long: 035 09 45 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.1625
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Black Sea; ruined by Cimmerians 7th century BCE; revived and became great political and commercial center on route to Euphrates river from Black Sea; Greek philosopher Diogenes and Mithridates VI the Great were born here.
Names:
Sinop
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Sanub
(
C
,
V
)
Sınob
(
C
,
V
)
Sinub
(
C
,
V
)
Sinope
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Turkey
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sinop
(province) (
P
)
................
Sinop
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Byzantine Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Trebizond, Empire of
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
............
Sinop
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
1204-1461
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
possibly first settled around 1200 BCE
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Sanub..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sınob..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sinop..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 867
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 839
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Sinope..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 867
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 839
.................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8550
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Sinub..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 867
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 839
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8550
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-770926
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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