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ID: 7019806
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7019806
Record Type:
physical
Allegheny River (river)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 26 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.4333
decimal degrees
Long: 080 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -80.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Rises in Potter county, Pennsylvania; runs through Pennsylvania & New York; unites with Monongahela river to form the Ohio river at Pittsburgh.
Names:
Allegheny River
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Allegheny
(
C
,
V
)
............
name derived from Delaware language, meaning "fine river" or "beautiful river"
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Allegheny River
(river) (
P
)
Place Types:
river (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Allegheny..........
[
VP
]
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36031758
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
34
Allegheny River..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS42000246
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS36031758; GNIS42000246
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
34
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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