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ID: 7010179
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010179
Record Type:
administrative
Kostroma (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 57 46 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 57.7667
decimal degrees
Long: 040 59 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 40.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on central Volga River; key position on river resulted in struggles between Novgorod & Moscow; annexed to Moscow in 1239; became a major textile center in 19th cen. & modern city is site of nation's largest flax-processing combine.
Names:
Kostroma
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Kostromna
(
C
,
U
)
Кострома
(
C
,
U
,
Russian-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Russia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kostroma Oblast
(oblast) (
P
)
................
Kostroma
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
purportedly founded by Yury Dolgoruky in 1152, but documentary evidence dates only from 1213
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Кострома..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2934420
Kostroma..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 971
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2934420
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
104
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Kostromna..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2934420
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 971
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2934420
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
104
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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