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ID: 7005732
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005732
Record Type:
administrative
Valletta (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 54 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 35.9000
decimal degrees
Long: 014 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport located on a rocky promontory; constructed after Great Siege of Malta by Turks in 1565; named for grand master of the Knights of Malta, Jean Parisot de La Valette; annexed by Britain in 1814; heavily damaged in WW II.
Names:
Valletta
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Valetta
(
C
,
V
)
La Valette
(
C
,
V
)
Valette, La
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malta
(nation) (
P
)
............
Valletta
(locality) (
P
)
................
Valletta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Malta
(nation) (
P
)
............
Malta
(island) (
P
)
................
Valletta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1565
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
established 1570
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Malta
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Europe) [7005729]
Sources and Contributors:
La Valette..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-96
Valetta..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1283
Valette, La..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-183
Valletta..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 980-981
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 980-981
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-183; I-96
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1283
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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