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ID: 7010526
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010526

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Vác (inhabited place)  Vác (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 46 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.7667  decimal degrees
Long: 019 08 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 19.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Danube river; was known to the Romans; the first king of Hungary, St. Stephen, established a bishopric here in the early 11th cen.; noted for 18th-cen. cathedral & episcopal palace.

Names:
Vác (preferred,C,V)
Waitzen (C,V)
Vacz (H,V)
Vacs (H,V)  ............ ancient name

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Hungary (nation)  ........  Hungary (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pest (county)  ............  Pest (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Vác (inhabited place)  ................  Vác (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  documented in Roman times
town (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in 1008

Sources and Contributors:
Vác..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Archaeológiai Értesitő Tettamanti, IV (1977), 79-85.
...........  Nagel's: Hungary (1974)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 206
Vacs..........  [VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 978
Vacz..........  [VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 979
Waitzen..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-187
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Archaeológiai Értesitő Tettamanti, IV (1977), 79-85.
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 978; II, 979
..................  Nagel's: Hungary (1974)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-187
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 206
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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