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ID: 7002766
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002766
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Baia Mare (inhabited place)  Baia Mare (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 023 36 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.6000  decimal degrees

Note: Located in Săsar river valley, surrounded by mountains that protect the site & allow it to sustain quasi-Mediterranean vegetation; founded by Saxon immigrants in 12th cen.; was seat of an Eastern-rite bishop in communion with the Vatican until 1948.

Names:
Baia Mare (preferred,C,V)  ............ name first documented in 1329
Nagybánya (C,O)
Neustadt (H,V)  ............ first documented name for the site

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Romania (nation)  ........  Romania (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Maramureş (county)  ............  Maramureş (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Baia Mare (inhabited place)  ................  Baia Mare (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 12th cen.
city (C)
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)
episcopal see (H)
mining center (H)  ............  until after WW II

Sources and Contributors:
Baia Mare..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 804
....................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968) 223
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 19
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Nagybánya..........  [VP]
....................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-118
Neustadt..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 804
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 804
..................  Nagel's: Rumania (1968) 223
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-118
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 19
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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