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ID: 7004128
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004128
Record Type:
administrative
Tîrgu Jiu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 03 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.0500
decimal degrees
Long: 023 18 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 23.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Jiu river; was a Roman settlement; was property of boyars until 19th cen.; noted for bitter fighting that took place here in the Jiu valley in both WW I & II; industrial development took place after WW II.
Names:
Tîrgu Jiu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Târgu Jiu
(
C
,
V
)
Târgu-Jiu
(
C
,
V
)
Turgu Jiu
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
România
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gorj
(county) (
P
)
................
Tîrgu Jiu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established as a Roman settlement
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Târgu Jiu..........
[
BHA
]
....................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Târgu-Jiu..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 935
Tîrgu Jiu..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 794
....................
Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
....................
TCI: Atlante Internazionale (1978)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
198
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Turgu Jiu..........
[
BHA
]
....................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 935
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 794
..................
Nagel's: Rumania (1968)
..................
TCI: Atlante Internazionale (1978)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
198
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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