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ID: 1076949
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1076949
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Shivpuri (inhabited place)  Shivpuri (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 25 25 25 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 25.4235  decimal degrees
Long: 077 39 38 E  degrees minutes   Long: 77.6607  decimal degrees

Note: Previously served as base of Narwar district, and was the former summer capital of Gwalior princely state. The Sindhia family captured the town from Narwar Rājput chief in 1804. Today, Shivpuri is the site of a forestry training school, a hospital, as well as marble cenotaphs of Sindhia rulers.

Names:
Shivpuri (preferred,C,V)
Shivpurī (C,V,English,U)
Sipri (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of India (nation)  ........  India (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Madhya Pradesh (state)  ............  Madhya Pradesh (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Shivpuri (inhabited place)  ................  Shivpuri (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
administrative center (C)
municipality (C)  ............  since 1904

Sources and Contributors:
Shivpuri..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 752
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 182
Shivpurī..........  [VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 2 January 2007
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sipri..........  [VP]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 752
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 752
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 2 January 2007
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2111153
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 182
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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