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ID: 7015769
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7015769
Record Type:
administrative
Arlington (county)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 52 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.8667
decimal degrees
Long: 077 06 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -77.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
One of nation's smallest counties; contains no incorporated places; ceded to Federal Government 1789 & later became part of District of Coloumbia; returned to Virginia 1846; contains Arlington National Cemetery & the Pentagon complex.
Names:
Arlington
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1920
Arlington County
(
C
,
O
)
Arlington county
(
C
,
O
,
display
)
Bellehaven
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Virginia
(state) (
P
)
................
Arlington
(county) (
P
)
Place Types:
county (
preferred
,
B
)
............
since ca. 1926
second level subdivision (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Arlington..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
1:561
....................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51034580
Arlington County..........
[
FDA
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Arlington county..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Bellehaven..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 561
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 561; 1:561
..................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS51034580
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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