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ID: 7004128
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004128
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tîrgu Jiu (inhabited place)  Tîrgu Jiu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 023 18 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.3000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Jiu river; was a Roman settlement; was property of boyars until 19th cen.; noted for bitter fighting that took place here in the Jiu valley in both WW I & II; industrial development took place after WW II.

Names:
Tîrgu Jiu (preferred,C,V)
Târgu Jiu (C,V)
Târgu-Jiu (C,V)
Turgu Jiu (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of România (nation)  ........  România (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gorj (county)  ............  Gorj (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Tîrgu Jiu (inhabited place)  ................  Tîrgu Jiu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established as a Roman settlement
city (C)
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Târgu Jiu..........  [BHA]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Târgu-Jiu..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 935
Tîrgu Jiu..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 794
....................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
....................  TCI: Atlante Internazionale (1978)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 198
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Turgu Jiu..........  [BHA]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 935
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 794
..................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
..................  TCI: Atlante Internazionale (1978)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 198
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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