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ID: 7014231
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014231
Record Type:
administrative
Norfolk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 076 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Part of urban complex that includes cities of Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach; important for tobacco trade 18th cen.; scene of several military insurrections during Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War.
Names:
Norfolk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Norfolk
(independent city) (
P
)
....................
Norfolk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
town laid out in 1682
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1845
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
shipbuilding center (
C
)
military center (
C
)
............
site of naval & air complex built after WW I, & is headquarters of US Atlantic Fleet & Supreme Allied Command
Sources and Contributors:
Norfolk..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
8:762
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51019474
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 762; 8:762
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51019474
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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