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ID: 7004166
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004166
Record Type:
administrative
Tórshavn (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 62 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 62.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 006 46 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -6.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on S tip of Streymoy island; was seat of the ancient Lagting (Faeroese parliament) which formerly met on the Tinganaes promontory that cuts the harbor into two parts; linked by road & boat to other settlements.
Names:
Tórshavn
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Thorshavn
(
C
,
V
)
Torshavn
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Føroyar
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Tórshavnar Kommuna
(first level subdivision) (
P,
U
)
................
Tórshavn
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Føroyar
(dependent state) (
P
)
............
Streymoy
(island) (
P
)
................
Tórshavn
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 13th cen.
town (
C
)
capital (
C
)
............
of Faeroe Islands
port (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
primarily produces knitwear, using wool from large numbers of sheep on the islands
fishing community (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Føroyar
.......... (dependent state)
..................
(World, Europe) [7004167]
Sources and Contributors:
Thorshavn..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Tórshavn..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 859
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
388
Torshavn..........
[
BHA
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 859
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
388
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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