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ID: 7004261
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004261
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ploiești (inhabited place)  Ploiești (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 44 57 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 44.9500  decimal degrees
Long: 026 01 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 26.0167  decimal degrees

Note: Located between valleys of Prahova & Teleajen rivers; documented in 16th cen. as a military camp for the army of Michael the Brave; expanded as a center of the oil industry in mid-19th cen.; was heavily damaged by earthquake in 1940 & by bombing in WW II.

Names:
Ploiești (preferred,C,V)  ............ named after town's legendary founder, Father Ploaie, an escapee from Transylvania
Ploești (C,V)
Ploiesti (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 Prahova (county)  ............  Prahova (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Ploiești (inhabited place)  ................  Ploiești (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 16th cen.
city (C)
county seat (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ploești..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-136
Ploiești..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 742
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 523
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 155
Ploiesti..........  [VP]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 742
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 523
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-136
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 155
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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