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ID: 1050174
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050174
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lugoj (inhabited place)  Lugoj (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 41 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.6833  decimal degrees
Long: 021 54 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 21.9000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Timiș river; Dacian fortress was built near here in 1st cen. BC; site was Roman fortified camp, around which the town grew; German settlement developed on N bank & Romanian settlement on S bank in Middle Ages; occupied by Turks in 17th cen.

Names:
Lugoj (preferred,C,V,English-P)
Lugos (C,O)
לוגוש (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of România (nation)  ........  România (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Timiş (county)  ............  Timiş (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Lugoj (inhabited place)  ................  Lugoj (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site is adjacent to Dacian settlement, modern town was built on site of Roman camp
city (C)
industrial center (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  of Orthodox bishop

Sources and Contributors:
לוגוש..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Lugoj..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 537
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 551
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 116
Lugos..........  [VP]
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-101
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 537
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 551
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-101
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 116
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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