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ID: 7012010
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012010
Record Type:
administrative
Chernigov (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 031 18 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated NE of Kiev on Desna river; formerly an important town of Kievan Russia; declined after Tatar incursion 1239-1240; developed in modern era as railroad junction; products include tire cord, pianos, foodstuffs & other consumer items.
Names:
Chernigov
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Černigov
(
C
,
V
)
Chernihiv
(
C
,
V
)
Zernigow
(
C
,
U
,
English-P
)
זרניקוב
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ukraina
(nation) (
P
)
............
Chernihivs'ka Oblast'
(oblast) (
P
)
................
Chernigov
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
possibly settled 7th cen.; first mentioned 907
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
זרניקוב..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Černigov..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 171
.................
Louis, Guide to the Soviet Union (1976)
148
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Chernigov..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 171
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
44
Chernihiv..........
[
VP
]
....................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
737
Zernigow..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
737
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 171
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Louis, Guide to the Soviet Union (1976)
148
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
44
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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