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ID: 7004125
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004125
Record Type:
administrative
Deva (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 022 55 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.9167
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally settled by Romans; modern town grew in 13-14th cen. around a citadel built against Turkish Muslim invasions; ruled by Hungarian Hunyadi family in 15th cen.; citadel was destroyed by an explosion in the early 19th cen.
Names:
Deva
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Déva
(
C
,
O
)
............
Hungarian
Diemrich
(
C
,
O
)
............
German
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Romania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Hunedoara
(county) (
P
)
................
Deva
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established as a Roman settlement
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Déva..........
[
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 240
Deva..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 44
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
55
...........
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Diemrich..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 240
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 240
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 44
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
55
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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