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ID: 7004260
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004260
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Târgoviște (inhabited place)  Târgoviște (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 56 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.9333  decimal degrees
Long: 025 27 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 25.4500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Ialomiţa river in SE Transylvanian Alps; site had several early settlements; was capital of feudal Walachia 14th-17th centuries; the head of Michael the Brave was brought here after his murder in Transylvania in 1601; it was razed by the Turks in 1737.

Names:
Târgoviște (preferred,C,V)
Tîrgoviște (C,V)
Vásáros (C,V)
Cikóvásárhely (C,V)
Cziká-Vásárhely (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Romania (nation)  ........  Romania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Dâmboviţa (county)  ............  Dâmboviţa (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Târgoviște (inhabited place)  ................  Târgoviște (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site had early occupations by Greeks, Romans & Dacians
city (C)
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Walachia, 1383-1698

Sources and Contributors:
Cikóvásárhely..........  [VP]
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 17 January 2006
Cziká-Vásárhely..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 17 January 2005
Târgoviște..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 935
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 17 January 2006
Tîrgoviște..........  [BHA, VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 794
.......................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 198
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Vásáros..........  [VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 17 January 2006
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 935
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 794
..................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 17 January 2006; accessed 17 January 2005
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 198
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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