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ID: 7010526
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010526
Record Type:
administrative
Vác (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 46 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.7667
decimal degrees
Long: 019 08 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 19.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Danube river; was known to the Romans; the first king of Hungary, St. Stephen, established a bishopric here in the early 11th cen.; noted for 18th-cen. cathedral & episcopal palace.
Names:
Vác
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Waitzen
(
C
,
V
)
Vacz
(
H
,
V
)
Vacs
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Hungary
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pest
(county) (
P
)
................
Vác
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
documented in Roman times
town (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
established in 1008
Sources and Contributors:
Vác..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Archaeológiai Értesitő
Tettamanti, IV (1977), 79-85.
...........
Nagel's: Hungary (1974)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
Vacs..........
[
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 978
Vacz..........
[
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 979
Waitzen..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-187
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Archaeológiai Értesitő
Tettamanti, IV (1977), 79-85.
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 978; II, 979
..................
Nagel's: Hungary (1974)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-187
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
206
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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