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ID: 7017015
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017015
Record Type:
administrative
Rijeka (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 014 27 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Adriatic Sea; was ruled by Dukes of Croatia 9th-14th cen.; ruled by Austria, Hungary & France; given to Yugoslavia after WW I; annexed after Italian fascist coup in 1922; went back to Yugoslavia after WW II.
Names:
Rijeka
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Rieka
(
C
,
V
)
Fiume
(
C
,
O
)
Sankt Veit am Flaum
(
C
,
O
)
רייקה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Tarsatica
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Croatia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Primorsko-Goranska Županija
(county) (
P
)
................
Rijeka
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a Roman settlement
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
seaport (
C
)
............
was primary base for Yugoslav navy until Croatia became an independent in 1992 & place of departure for coastal shipping
industrial center (
C
)
............
for shipyards & repair facilities, major oil refineries, paper factories & diesel engine works, has a major pipeline terminus
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
............
hub for rail lines & roadways
cultural center (
C
)
............
includes several 14th-cen. churches, a 13th-cen. castle & university
Sources and Contributors:
רייקה..........
[
IMJ
]
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Fiume..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 780
Rieka..........
[
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 780
Rijeka..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Blue Guide: Yugoslavia (1989)
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 780
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 71-72
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
165
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1018
Sankt Veit am Flaum..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 780
Tarsatica..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 780
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Blue Guide: Yugoslavia (1989)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 780
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 71-72
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
165
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1018
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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