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ID: 7014203
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014203

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of New England (general region)  New England (general region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 12 10 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.2033  decimal degrees
Long: 070 18 10 W  degrees minutes   Long: -70.3039  decimal degrees

Note: Refers to several states settled by English colonists, including Connecticut, Maine, Massaschusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The coastline has many harbors. It is on a broad continental shelf, with forested hills inland. It was inhabited by the 9th mill. BCE; the Algonquians were here when the Europeans settled in early 17th cen.

Names:
New England (preferred,C,V,English-P)
ניו אינגלנד (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New England (general region)  ............  New England (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)
area (C)

Sources and Contributors:
ניו אינגלנד..........  [IMJ]
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
New England..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIX, 268
.......................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 11919979
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIX, 268
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
..................  GeoNames online [n.d.] 11919979
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
..................  Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)

 

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