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ID: 7006280 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006280			Record Type: administrative

Budapest (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 30 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 47.5000 decimal degrees
Long: 019 03 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 19.0500 decimal degrees

Note: City has status of a county; communities of Buda (right bank) & Pest (left) developed at important crossing point of the Danube; both were Roman settlements; both were capitals of nation (Buda in 15th cen., Pest in 18th cen.); taken by Turks in 16th cen.

Names:

Budapest (preferred,C,V,English-P)	............	name acquired when Pest, Buda & Óbuda (Old Buda) were amalgamated in 1873
בודפשט (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

....

Europe (continent) (P)

........

Hungary (nation) (P)

............

Budapest (special city) (P)

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Budapest (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	area has been settled since 3rd mill. BC; Buda & Pest joined to form one city in 1873
city (C)
county seat (C)	............	of Pest county
national capital (C)

Related geographic places:

capital of ....	Hungary .......... (nation)
..................	(World, Europe) [7006278]

Sources and Contributors:

בודפשט..........	[IMJ]
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Budapest..........	[BHA, GRLPSC, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................	Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 617
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 129
.................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 601-602
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 35
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 185

Subject: .....	[BHA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP]
..................	Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 617
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 129
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 601-602
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 35
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 185


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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