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ID: 1042014
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1042014
Record Type:
administrative
Flórina (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 47 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.7833
decimal degrees
Long: 021 24 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 21.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Was founded by Byzantines; taken by Ottoman Turks in late 14th cen.; was home to several ethnic groups; became center of Bulgarian irredentist agitation in 19th century.; passed to Greece after Balkan Wars of 1912-1913.
Names:
Flórina
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Phlórina
(
C
,
V
)
Plorina
(
NA
,
V
,
Greek (transliterated)
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Greece
(nation) (
P
)
............
Region of Western Macedonia
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
U
)
................
Flórina
(regional division) (
P
)
....................
Flórina
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
of Byzantine origin
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Flórina..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
67
Phlórina..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 298
Plorina..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 298
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-817423
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
67
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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