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ID: 1054228
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1054228
Record Type:
administrative
Atyrau (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 07 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.1167
decimal degrees
Long: 051 56 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 51.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located N of Caspian Sea on Ural river; industries include fish canning, oil refining, metalworking, meat packing & ship repair; site of a museum, theater & institute for training teachers.
Names:
Atyrau
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Atraū
(
C
,
V
)
Guriev
(
H
,
V
)
Guryev
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kazakhstan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Atyraū
(province) (
P
)
................
Atyrau
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as fishing settlement by fishing entrepreneur Mikhail Guryev mid-1600s
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Atraū..........
[
VP
]
..............
CIA, World Fact Book (1996)
accessed 03/21/99
Atyrau..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1994)
642
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994)
I-11
Guriev..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 577
Guryev..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 577
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1994)
642
..................
CIA, World Fact Book (1996)
accessed 03/21/99
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 577
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994)
I-11
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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