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ID: 7011559
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011559
Record Type:
administrative
Chita (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 03 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.0500
decimal degrees
Long: 113 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 113.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at confluence of Chita & Ingoda rivers; fort built 1690; became trade center along route to China; Decembrists exiled here after plot of 1825; expanded with Trans-Siberian Railroad 1900 & Chinese Eastern Railway 1903.
Names:
Chita
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
,
Russian-P
)
Čita
(
C
,
V
)
Tchita
(
C
,
U
)
Tschita
(
C
,
U
)
Чита
(
C
,
U
,
Russian
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rossija
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zabaykal'skiy Kray
(kray) (
P
)
................
Chita
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a wintering camp in 1653
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Transbaikal government from 1851-1926
Sources and Contributors:
Чита..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2899145
Chita..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2899145
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
45
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
261
Čita..........
[
VP
]
...........
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-37
Tchita..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2899145
Tschita..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2899145
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2899145
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-37
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
45
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
261
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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