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ID: 7016786
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016786

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Prussia (former nation/state/empire)  Prussia (former nation/state/empire)

Note: Former nation occupying what is today mainly in Germany and Poland; early Prussians were Baltic people; area was colonized by Teutonic Knights in 13th cen.; flourished as a strong military state 17th-19th cen.

Names:
Prussia (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
Preussen (C,V,German-P,U,N)
Prusse (C,O,French-P,U,N)
Prussian (C,O,English,U,A)
פרוסיה (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Prussia (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Prussia (former nation/state/empire) (P)

Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (preferred, C)
general region (C)
duchy (H)
nation (H)

Sources and Contributors:
פרוסיה..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Preussen..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
Prusse..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Prussia..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 984-985
Prussian..........  [VP]
.................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-) accessed 17 January 2008
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-) accessed 17 January 2008
..................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 984-985
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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