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ID: 7009962
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009962
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Turku (inhabited place)  Turku (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 60 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 60.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 022 15 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 22.2500  decimal degrees

Note: Located at the mouth of the Aurajoki (river); noted as the nation's oldest city & cradle of Finnish culture; originally established as a trading center a few miles N of present site; was seat of first bishop of Finland in 1220; destroyed by fire in 1827.

Names:
Turku (preferred,C,V)
Åbo (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Finland (nation)  ........  Finland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Southwest Finland Region (region (administrative division))  ............  Southwest Finland Region (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Turku (inhabited place)  ................  Turku (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled early, moved S to present location in 13th cen., chartered in 1525
city (C)
port (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in 1220
provincial capital (H)  ............  of the former province of Turku-Pori until 1998

Sources and Contributors:
Åbo..........  [BHA, VP]
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 6
Turku..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 854
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 63
..............  Nagel's: Scandinavia (1968)
..............  Reclams: Finnland (1985) 255
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 203
..............  USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998) 3
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 854
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 63
..................  Nagel's: Scandinavia (1968)
..................  Reclams: Finnland (1985) 255
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 203; 6
..................  USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998) 3
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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