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ID: 7008352
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008352
Record Type:
administrative
Bastia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 42 10 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.7028
decimal degrees
Long: 009 27 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 9.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest city in Corsica; originally a poor fishing village; one of first towns to welcome union with France; opposed to anticlericalism of Revolution; taken by British 1745; became French 1768; exports wine, asbestos & fish.
Names:
Bastia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1383
Marina di Cardo
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1383
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Corsica
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Bastia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
............
since 1976
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
military center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Corsica Island, 1791
fishing community (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bastia..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
23
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
122
Marina di Cardo..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 950
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 950
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1410679
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
23
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
122
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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