Research Home
Tools
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Full Record Display
Vernacular Display
|
English Display
Click the
icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View
(
JSON
,
JSONLD
,
RDF
,
N3/Turtle
,
N-Triples
)
ID: 7012987
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012987
Record Type:
administrative
Maribor (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 33 14 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.5547
decimal degrees
Long: 015 38 45 E
degrees minutes
Long: 15.6467
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Drava river near Austrian border; was an important Hapsburg trading center in Styria from 1209; became an important center for German culture; was a Christian bastion against Turks; went to Yugoslavia in 1919.
Names:
Maribor
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Marburg an der Drau
(
C
,
V
)
Marburg
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Slovenia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maribor
(municipality) (
P
)
................
Maribor
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
B
)
............
settled since Roman times; modern town was known in 10th cen.
town (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
has much heavy industry, products include chemicals, trucks & buses
resort center (
C
)
sporting center (
C
)
............
for winter sports
university center (
C
)
fortified settlement (
H
)
............
noted for ruins of 15th-cen. fortress
episcopal see (
H
)
............
noted for 12th-cen. cathedral
Sources and Contributors:
Marburg..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 843
Marburg an der Drau..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-107
Maribor..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 843
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
33TWM4957055887
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
122
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 843
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-107
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
122
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use
/
Privacy Policy
/
Contact Us
icon to view the hierarchy.
