The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help

Vernacular Display | English Display

Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View (JSON, JSONLD, RDF, N3/Turtle, N-Triples)

ID: 1085083
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1085083
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Al Qāmishlī (inhabited place)  Al Qāmishlī (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 041 15 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 41.2500  decimal degrees

Note: Founded as a station on Taurus railway; population grew with influx of Armenian, Assyrian Christian & Kurdish refugees from Turkey & Iraq; is Armenian & Syrian Catholic archbishopric; has Sunni Muslims, Syriac-speaking Christians & a Jewish community.

Names:
Al Qāmishlī (preferred,C,V)
Qamishliye (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Syria (nation)  ........  Syria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Ḩasakah (governorate)  ............  Al Ḩasakah (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Qāmishlī (inhabited place)  ................  Al Qāmishlī (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1926
town (C)
transportation center (C)
agricultural center (C)
market center (C)
archiepiscopal see (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Al Qāmishlī..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 11
Qamishliye..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 831
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 831
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 11
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust

© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / Contact Us