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ID: 7011509
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011509
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kareliya (republic)  Kareliya (republic)

Coordinates:
Lat: 64 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 64.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 032 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 32.5000  decimal degrees

Note: The eastern portion of Karelia went to Russia in 1323. The western portion was not annexed until 1947. Its administrative status has alternated between autonomous oblast and republic in 1923, 1940, and 1956. Its economy is based on mining, timber, fishing, livestock, and fur trapping.

Names:
Kareliya (preferred,C,V)
Kareliya, Respublika (C,V,Russian (transliterated)-P,U,N)
Respublika Kareliya (C,V)
Karelija, Respublika (C,V)
Karelia (C,V)
Karelia-provisional (C,V)
Karelija (C,V)
Karelian ASSR (H,V)  ............ 1923-1940; 1956-1991
Karel'skaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika (H,O)  ............ 1923-1940; 1956-1991
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (H,O)  ............ 1923-1940; 1956-1991
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (H,O)  ............ from 1940-1956
Karel'skaya ASSR (C,V)  ............ 1923-1940; 1956-1991

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kareliya (republic)  ............  Kareliya (republic) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kareliya (republic)  ........  Kareliya (republic) (P)

Place Types:
republic (preferred, C)
first level subdivision (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Karelia..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 642
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-84
.................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
Karelian ASSR..........  [VP]
..........................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic..........  [VP]
..........................................................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 741
Karelia-provisional..........  [VP]
...................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Karelija..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Karelija, Respublika..........  [VP]
...................................  ISO Newsletter I-1 (2000) accessed 27 September 2007
Kareliya..........  [VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 27 September 2007
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 1 December 2014
Kareliya, Respublika..........  [VP Preferred]
...................................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 27 September 2007
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic..........  [VP]
.................................................................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 463
Karel'skaya ASSR..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 27 September 2007
Karel'skaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika..........  [VP]
........................................................................................................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 27 September 2007
Respublika Kareliya..........  [VP]
...................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 463
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 642; VI, 741
..................  ISO Newsletter I-1 (2000) accessed 27 September 2007
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 27 September 2007
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-84
..................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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