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ID: 1060352
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1060352
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tokmak (inhabited place)  Tokmak (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 52 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 075 18 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 75.3000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Chu river; originally was a fortress in the 19th cen.; captured by Russians in 1867 & made a district town; was later superseded in regional importance by Bishkek; industry developed here after construction of the railway in 1938.

Names:
Tokmak (preferred,C,V)
Bolshoy Tokmak (H,V)  ............ name used until 1963

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kyrgyzstan (nation)  ........  Kyrgyzstan (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chüy (province)  ............  Chüy (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Tokmak (inhabited place)  ................  Tokmak (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a fortress in the 19th cen.
city (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bolshoy Tokmak..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 824
Tokmak..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 824
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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