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ID: 7013803
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013803
Record Type:
administrative
Ithaca (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 26 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.4333
decimal degrees
Long: 076 29 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Cayuga Lake; was part of military tract granted to veterans of Revolution in 1782; later founded by Simeon DeWitt, surveyor general of New York; growth was stimultated by establishment of Cornell University.
Names:
Ithaca
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
איתקה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
New York
(state) (
P
)
................
Tompkins
(county) (
P
)
....................
Ithaca
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1789
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
since 1817
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
produces chain drives & belting, adding machines, textiles & salt
university center (
C
)
............
Cornell University was founded by Ezra Cornell in 1865
tourist center (
C
)
............
is gateway to Finger Lakes recreational area
Sources and Contributors:
איתקה..........
[
IMJ
]
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Ithaca..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 435
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36032230
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 435
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36032230
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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