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ID: 7015498
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015498
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Strumica (inhabited place)  Strumica (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 26 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.4333  decimal degrees
Long: 022 39 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 22.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Strumica river; was site of a fortress built by Roman Emperor Tiberius; passed from Turkish rule to Bulgaria in 1913 & to former Yugoslavia in 1919; noted for 14th-cen. Serbian castle.

Names:
Strumica (preferred,C,V)
Strumitsa (C,O)
Strumnitza (C,O)
Tiberiopolis (H,V)
Astracum (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of North Macedonia (nation)  ........  North Macedonia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Strumica (municipality)  ............  Strumica (municipality) (P)
Hierarchy of Strumica (inhabited place)  ................  Strumica (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient town
town (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  for tobacco, livestock & cotton
battlefield (C)  ............  in Balkan Wars (1912-1913) & WW I (1914-1918)

Sources and Contributors:
Astracum..........  [VP]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 616
Strumica..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 616
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 893
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1159
Strumitsa..........  [VP]
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1159
Strumnitza..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1159
Tiberiopolis..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 893
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 616
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 893
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1159
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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