And don't forgot to check the MARC 264$c as well. That's the field that we use
with RDA and you'll find it in newer records.
Karen
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Ethan, have you considered Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names? It does
provide a geographic hierarchy, although the data for Athens they provide isn't
quite the one you've described:
http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=athensplace=nation=prev_page=1english=Ysubjectid=7001393
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OK, as a cataloger who has been confused by the jurisdictional/place name
distinction, I'm going to jump in here.
Whether England means the free-floating geographic entity or the country
is not quite unknowable -- it depends on the MARC codes that accompany it.
The brief answer is this: a
