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ID: 1050328
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050328
Record Type:
administrative
Vaslui (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 027 46 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Bîrlad river; town is famous for a battle near here in 1475, when Stephen the Great with 40,000 troops defeated a Turkish army that was three times larger; he also built St. John the Baptist church & a prince's residence here.
Names:
Vaslui
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
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Romania
(nation) (
P
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Vaslui
(county) (
P
)
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Vaslui
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a noted medieval center
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Vaslui..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 983
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
207
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 983
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
207
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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