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ID: 7010506
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010506
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pécs (inhabited place)  Pécs (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 018 15 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 18.2500  decimal degrees

Note: Rome occupied Illyrian/Celtic settlement; was capital of Roman S Pannonia; Hungarian King Stephen I established bishopric in 11th cen.; became major humanist intellectual center; German immigrants arrived 18th cen.; noted for handicrafts produced here.

Names:
Pécs (preferred,C,V)  ............ name first documented in late 11th cen.
Fünfkirchen (C,V)
Quinque Ecclesiae (H,V)  ............ used in medieval period
Sopianae (H,O)  ............ Roman name

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Hungary (nation)  ........  Hungary (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Baranya (county)  ............  Baranya (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Pécs (inhabited place)  ................  Pécs (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first settled by Illyrians & Celts, received royal charter in 1780
city (C)  ............  town developed rapidly in 19th-20th cen.
county seat (C)
industrial center (C)
mining center (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in 1009

Sources and Contributors:
Fünfkirchen..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-58
Pécs..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 720
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 232-233
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 151
...........  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Quinque Ecclesiae..........  [VP]
................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 232-233
Sopianae..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 232-233
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 720
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 232-233
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-58
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 151
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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