Talas (Kyrgyzstan)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
טלס (קירגיזסטן)
Name (Latin)
Talas (Kyrgyzstan)
Other forms of name
Talass (Kyrgyzstan)
Coordinates
72.23333333 72.23333333 42.51666667 42.51666667 (gooearth )
Associated country
Kyrgyzstan
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 138570756
Wikidata: Q643955
Library of congress: n 2002124597
OCoLC: oca05759552
Sources of Information
  • GEOnet, 9 May 2002(Talas, PPLA, 42°31ʹ20ʺN 72°14ʹ31ʺE, Kyrgyzstan; variants: Talass, Dmitriyevskoye, Dmitriyevka)
  • Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii. Predprii︠a︡tie no. 19. Talas, plan-skhema, 1988.
  • GEOnet, 9 May 2002(Talas, PPLA, 42⁰31ʹ20ʺN 72⁰14ʹ31ʺE, Kyrgyzstan; variants: Talass, Dmitriyevskoye, Dmitriyevka)
  • Col. gaz. world, c1998(Talas, city, Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan, until 1937 called Dmitriyevskoye [no publs. in LC database])

Wikipedia description:

Talas (; Kyrgyz: [tʰɑɫɑ́s] ) is a town in northwestern Kyrgyzstan, located in the Talas river valley between two mountain ranges. Its area is 13 square kilometres (5.0 sq mi), and its resident population was 40,308 in 2021. It is the administrative headquarters of Talas Region. The town was founded by East Slavic settlers in 1877. To the south is the Besh-Tash (‘five rocks’) valley with the Besh-Tash National Park.

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