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ID: 7017243
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017243
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bangor (inhabited place)  Bangor (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 004 07 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -4.1167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Menai Strait between Caernarvon Bay & the Irish Sea; noted for cruciform cathedral built on the site of a church destroyed by English in 1071; the earlier church was perhaps founded by St. Deinol ca. 525; city is also seat of 5 colleges.

Names:
Bangor (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Bangor Fawr (C,V)
Bangon (NA,V,English,U)
Bancorna (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Wales (country)  ............  Wales (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Gwynedd (county)  ................  Gwynedd (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Bangor (inhabited place)  ....................  Bangor (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an important early center
city (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  founded by 600
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bancorna..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
Bangon..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Bangor..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 21
Bangor Fawr..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 78
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 78
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2589194
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 21
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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