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ID: 7009893
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009893
Record Type:
administrative
Pori (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 61 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 61.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 021 45 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 21.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Original settlement was located farther up the Kokemäenjoki (river), but was moved in 16th cen.; was destroyed by fire in 16th & 19th cen., but rebuilt; serves as a crucial year-round seaport.
Names:
Pori
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Björneborg
(
C
,
V
)
Ulvila
(
H
,
V
)
............
name used in 14th cen.
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Finland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Satakunta Region
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Pori
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originally settled in 12th cen.; moved down river to its present site in 1558
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Björneborg..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
Pori..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 747
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
156
...........
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Ulvila..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 615
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 747
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 615
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
156; 29
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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