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ID: 7004735
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004735
Record Type:
administrative
Nagasaki (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 129 52 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 129.8667
decimal degrees
Note:
Chief center of contact with foreigners after 1571; a port of call for Spanish, Dutch & Portuguese ships; the only port in Japan kept open to foreign trade 1636-1859; inner city destroyed by atomic bomb 1945; rebuilt since 1945.
Names:
Nagasaki
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Japan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nagasaki
(prefecture) (
P
)
................
Nagasaki
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first Portuguese ships arrived here in 1571
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
religious center (
H
)
............
of Japanese Christianity, after 1571
imperial city (
H
)
............
created by Hideyoshi in 1587
Sources and Contributors:
Nagasaki..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
135
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
807
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
135
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
807
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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