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ID: 7009964
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009964
Record Type:
administrative
Vaasa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 63 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 63.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 021 36 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 21.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded in 1606 by Swedish King Charles IX; was destroyed by fire in 1852, & rebuilt in a more strategic site 5 miles closer to the sea; was provisional capital of Finland during the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.
Names:
Vaasa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Vasa
(
C
,
V
)
............
named for the reigning House of Vasa of Sweden in 1611
Nikolainkaupunki
(
H
,
V
)
............
used from 19th cen. until 1917
Nikolaistad
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Suomi
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pohjanmaa
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Vaasa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1606, but moved to the sea after a fire in 1852
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
provincial capital (
H
)
............
of the former province of Vaasa until 1998
Sources and Contributors:
Nikolainkaupunki..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 227
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1281
Nikolaistad..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 979
Vaasa..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
..............
USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998)
3
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Vasa..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 227
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 979
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 227
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
..................
USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998)
3
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1281
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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