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ID: 7006473
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006473
Record Type:
administrative
Mitau (Jelgava) (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 56 39 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 56.6500
decimal degrees
Long: 023 40 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 23.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Lielupe river; fortress was constructed by Brothers of the Sword in 13th cen.; capital of the dukes of Courland from 1561; ruled by Russia from 1795; was heavily damaged in WW I & II.
Names:
Jelgava
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Yelgava
(
C
,
O
)
Mitau (Jelgava)
(
C
,
U
,
English-P
)
מיטאו (ילגווה)
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Mitau
(
H
,
V
)
Mitava
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Latvia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Jelgavas Novads
(municipality) (
P
)
................
Mitau
(Jelgava) (inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
fortress founded in 1226, town founded in 1376
city (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
river settlement (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
מיטאו (ילגווה)..........
[
IMJ
]
.............................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Jelgava..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
639
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 526
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
92
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Mitau..........
[
VP
]
..............
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-112
Mitau (Jelgava)..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
.............................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Mitava..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 441
Yelgava..........
[
BHA
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
639
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 441
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 526
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-112
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
92
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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