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ID: 1059932
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1059932
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sumy (inhabited place)  Sumy (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 55 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 034 49 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 34.8167  decimal degrees

Note: Situated on Psyol river; noted for 18th-cen. architecture, including Cathedral of Transfiguration & Church of Resurrection; produces refined sugar, chemicals, pumps, clothes, footwear & furniture.

Names:
Sumy (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ukraina (nation)  ........  Ukraina (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sums'ka Oblast' (oblast)  ............  Sums'ka Oblast' (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Sumy (inhabited place)  ................  Sumy (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since 8th-9th cen.; Sumy founded as fortress 1652
city (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Sumy..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 387
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 191
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 387
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 191
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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