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ID: 7009609
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009609
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Stirling (inhabited place)  Stirling (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 56 07 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 56.1167  decimal degrees
Long: 003 57 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on hill on right bank of River Forth; site of several battles during 13th-cen. Anglo-Scottish Wars; birthplace of James II & coronation place of Mary Queen of Scots; processing center for agricultural products; site of 16th-cen. Stirling Castle.

Names:
Stirling (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Snowdoun (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Scotland (country)  ............  Scotland (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Stirling (unitary authority)  ................  Stirling (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Stirling (inhabited place)  ....................  Stirling (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  occupied by Britons, Romans & Pictish tribes
town (C)  ............  chartered in 1130
regional capital (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Snowdoun..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 891
Stirling..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................  Blue Guide: Scotland (1959) 208
.................  Blue Guide: Scotland (1980) 208
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 891
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 274-75
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 189
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Blue Guide: Scotland (1959) 208
..................  Blue Guide: Scotland (1980) 208
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 891
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 274-75
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2608742
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 189
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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