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ID: 7016872
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016872
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Kras (plateau)  Kras (plateau)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 48 21 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.8050  decimal degrees
Long: 013 44 58 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.7490  decimal degrees

Note: Mountain plateau east of the Isonzo river, along the border of Slovenia and Italy; was site of two battles, where Italians defeated Austrians in WW I.

Names:
Kras (preferred,C,V)
Carso (C,O)
Karst (C,O)
Gornji Kras (C,V)
Krst (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kras (plateau)  ........  Kras (plateau) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Slovenija (nation)  ........  Slovenija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Komen (municipality)  ............  Komen (municipality) (P)
Hierarchy of Kras (plateau)  ................  Kras (plateau)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (region (administrative division))  ............  Friuli-Venezia Giulia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Kras (plateau)  ................  Kras (plateau) (P)

Place Types:
plateau (preferred, C)
region (geographic) (C)
battlefield (H)  ............  during WW I

Sources and Contributors:
Carso..........  [BHA]
..............  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Gornji Kras..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 5 December 2019
Karst..........  [BHA, VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 489
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Kras..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...........  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Krst..........  [VP]
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 5 December 2019
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 489
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Braitenberg et al, Karst Caves, Geodesy and Geodynamics (2018)

 

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