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ID: 7010106
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010106
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Astrakhan (inhabited place)  Astrakhan (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 22 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 048 04 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 48.0667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on several islands on left bank of Volga; developed from small village to important trading center; conquered by Timur 1395 & Ivan IV the Terrible 1556; burned by Turks 1569; known for its wool of the Astrakhan lamb & its great ethnic diversity.

Names:
Astrakhan (preferred,C,V)
Astrachan' (C,V)
Astrakhan’ (C,U,O)
Астрахань (C,U,Russian-P)
Khadzhi-Tarkhan (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Rossija (nation)  ........  Rossija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Astrakhanskaya Oblast’ (oblast)  ............  Astrakhanskaya Oblast’ (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Astrakhan (inhabited place)  ................  Astrakhan (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
regional capital (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of a Tatar khanate during the period following the rule of the Golden Hord empire ca. 15th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Астрахань..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2880021
Astrachan'..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 56
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 653-654
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-10
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 87
Astrakhan..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 17
Astrakhan’..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2880021
Khadzhi-Tarkhan..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 653
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 56
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 653; I, 653-654
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2880021
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-10
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 17
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 87
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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