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ID: 7002554
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002554
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kars (inhabited place)  Kars (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 35 54 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.5983  decimal degrees
Long: 043 05 08 E  degrees minutes   Long: 43.0855  decimal degrees

Note: Taken by Seljuqs in the 11th century; captured by Mongols in the 13th century; seized by Tamerlane in 1387; absorbed into the Ottoman Empire in 1514; withstood sieges from Iran in 1731 and Russia in 1807; lost to Russians in 1828 and 1855; annexed to Russia 1877-1878; given back to Turkey in 1918.

Names:
Kars (preferred,C,V)
Qars (C,V)
Cars (C,V)
Vanand (C,V)
Chorsa (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kars (province)  ............  Kars (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Kars (inhabited place)  ................  Kars (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
capital (H)  ............  of independent Armenian principality, 9th-10th cen.
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cars..........  [VP]
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Chorsa..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 465
Kars..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 751
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 97
...........  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 592
Qars..........  [VP]
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 592
Vanand..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 465
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 751
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -758228
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 97
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 592
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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