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ID: 1065312
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1065312
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Varaždin (inhabited place)  Varaždin (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 016 21 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.3500  decimal degrees

Note: Small city located on right bank of Drava river, 81 km N of Zagreb; earliest mention is in a document of 1181 issued by King Bela III; devastated by fire in 1776; known for its Baroque buildings & as a music center; sometimes called "Little Vienna."

Names:
Varaždin (preferred,C,V)
Varasd (C,O)
Warasdin (C,O)
Castrum Garestin (H,O)
Varasdinum (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Croatia (nation)  ........  Croatia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Varaždinska Županija (county)  ............  Varaždinska Županija (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Varaždin (inhabited place)  ................  Varaždin (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  for food, textile, metalworking, wood & timber industries
commercial center (C)
cultural center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of the Province of Croatia, 1756-1776

Sources and Contributors:
Castrum Garestin..........  [VP]
.............................  Varazdin 2000 accessed 7/16/01
Varasd..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 285
Varasdinum..........  [VP]
.......................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 564
Varaždin..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 207
.................  Varazdin 2000 accessed 7/16/01
Warasdin..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1285
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 285
..................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 564
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 207
..................  Varazdin 2000 accessed 7/16/01
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1285
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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