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ID: 7013329
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013329
Record Type:
administrative
Athens (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 083 22 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -83.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in NE Georgia on Oconee River; created as seat for University of Georgia (USA's oldest state university); probably named for Athens, Greece; grew as trade & manufacturing center.
Names:
Athens
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Georgia
(state) (
P
)
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Clarke
(county) (
P
)
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Athens
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1801, incorporated in 1806
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
............
for poultry processing & for electrical motors & transformers
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for textiles, clothing & clocks
trade center (
C
)
............
for products of rich agricultural region
agricultural center (
C
)
............
for poultry & for dairy & beef cattle
educational center (
C
)
............
for University of Georgia (chartered in 1785) & for USA Navy Supply Corps School
tourist center (
C
)
............
for many notable antebellum Neoclassical buildings, including Lucy Cobb Institute, Taylor-Grady House & Joseph Lumpkin House
Sources and Contributors:
Athens..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 58
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 668
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS13000748
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
88
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 58
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 668
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS13000748
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
88
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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