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ID: 1079603
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1079603
Record Type:
administrative
Qiryat Shemona (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 035 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Name means "Town of the Eight," in memory of eight people killed defending nearby Tel-Hai in the 1920s.
Names:
Qiryat Shemona
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kiryat-Shemona
(
C
,
V
)
Kiryat Shemona
(
C
,
U
,
English-P
)
קרית שמונה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Yisra'el
(nation) (
P
)
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HaẔafon
(national district) (
P
)
................
Qiryat Shemona
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
קרית שמונה..........
[
IMJ
]
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Kiryat-Shemona..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Vilnay, Guide to Israel (1971)
517
Kiryat Shemona..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
.............................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Qiryat Shemona..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
160
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
160
..................
Vilnay, Guide to Israel (1971)
517
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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