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ID: 1050039
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050039
Record Type:
administrative
Botoșani (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 44 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.7333
decimal degrees
Long: 026 41 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 26.6833
decimal degrees
Note:
Named after Batu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, when the latter occupied the town in 13th cen.; has long been a market center for agricultural produce & wine from the surrounding area; also is an industrial center producing textiles.
Names:
Botoșani
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Botoshani
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
România
(nation) (
P
)
............
Botoşani
(county) (
P
)
................
Botoșani
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a thriving medieval center
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
market center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Botoșani..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 411
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
32
Botoshani..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 115
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 115
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 411
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
32
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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