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Chişinău (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 47 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 47.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 028 50 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 28.8333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Situated on Byk river; heavily damaged in Russo-Turkish War 1788; ceded to Russia 1812; site where poet Aleksandr Pushkin was sent into exile; part of Romania after WW I; passed to Soviet Union in 1940; destroyed in WW II and later reconstructed. |
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| Chişinău (preferred,C,V)
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| Kishinev (C,V,English-P)
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| Kishinyov (C,V)
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| Kishiniv (C,V)
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| Kishinëv (C,V)
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| Kishinef (C,V)
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| Kiscinev (C,V)
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| Kischinew (C,V)
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| Chişinǎu (C,V)
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| Chişină (C,V)
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| Kišin'ov (C,V)
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| קישינייב (C,U,Hebrew )
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Chişinău (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first documented in 1466 |
| city (C) |
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| national capital (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| educational center (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Moldova .......... (nation) |
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(World, Europe) [7006656] |
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