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ID: 1060690
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1060690
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Oral (inhabited place)  Oral (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 14 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.2333  decimal degrees
Long: 051 22 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 51.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Center of Stenka Razin uprising (1667) & Yemelyan Pugachov uprising (1773); former base of Ural Cossacks; declined in commercial significance when it was bypassed by new railroad to Turkistan in early 20th cen.; products include leather & footwear.

Names:
Oral (preferred,C,V)
Ural'sk (C,V)  ............ Russian name
Uralsk (C,V)
Yaitsky Gorodok (H,V)  ............ until 1775

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kazakhstan (nation)  ........  Kazakhstan (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of West Kazakhstan (province)  ............  West Kazakhstan (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Oral (inhabited place)  ................  Oral (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Cossacks 1613 or 1622
city (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Oral..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 03/21/99
Ural'sk..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 195
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 03/21/99
Uralsk..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 195
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 205
Yaitsky Gorodok..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 195
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 195
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 03/21/99
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 205
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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