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ID: 7014231
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014231
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Norfolk (inhabited place)  Norfolk (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 50 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 076 17 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -76.2833  decimal degrees

Note: Part of urban complex that includes cities of Chesapeake, Newport News, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach; important for tobacco trade 18th cen.; scene of several military insurrections during Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War.

Names:
Norfolk (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Virginia (state)  ............  Virginia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Norfolk (independent city)  ................  Norfolk (independent city) (P)
Hierarchy of Norfolk (inhabited place)  ....................  Norfolk (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town laid out in 1682
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1845
port (C)
trade center (C)
shipbuilding center (C)
military center (C)  ............  site of naval & air complex built after WW I, & is headquarters of US Atlantic Fleet & Supreme Allied Command

Sources and Contributors:
Norfolk..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 8:762
.................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51019474
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 762; 8:762
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS51019474
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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