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ID: 7003514
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003514
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (nation)  Luxembourg (nation)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 006 10 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.1667  decimal degrees

Note: Inhabited by Belgic Treveri tribe when Romans invaded 57 BCE; Germanic tribes invaded ca. 400; part of Frankish kingdom of Austrasia, and of Carolingian empire; ruled by counts of Luxembourg 11th century, by Burgundy 1440s; was part of Spanish Netherlands; languages are French (used for civil service, law and parliament) and German (used by the press), and spoken tongue is the Letzeburgish dialect (of Moselle Frankish origin).

Names:
Luxembourg (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,B)
Luxembourg (French-P,U,B)
Luxemburg (C,V,German-P,U,N)
Großherzogtum Luxemburg (C,V,O,German,U)
Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (C,V,O,French,U,N)
Lëtzebuerg (C,V,Luxembourgish-P,U,N)
Grousherzogdem Lëtzebuerg (C,V,Luxembourgish,U,N)
Grossherzogtum Luxemburg (C,V,German,U,N)
Gross-Herzogtum Luxemburg (C,V,German,U,N)
Letzeburg (C,V,Luxembourgish,U,N)
Lezebuurg (C,V)
Letzebuerg (C,V)
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (C,O,English,U,N)
Luxemburgo (C,O,Spanish-P,U,N)
Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo (C,O,Spanish,U)
Люксембург (C,O,Russian-P,U)
Великое Герцогство Люксембург (C,O,Russian,U)
卢森堡 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
卢森堡大公国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
ىًسمبرغ (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
دوك ةِ ىًسمبرغ ا ىًبرى (C,O,Arabic,U)
LUX (C,O,ISO3L)
LU (C,O,ISO2L)
ISO442 (C,O,ISO3N)
LU00 (C,O,FIPS)
Luxembourgeois (C,V)
לוקסמבורג (C,U,Hebrew )
Lützelburg (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (nation)  ........  Luxembourg (nation) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Low Countries (general region)  ........  Low Countries (general region) (P)
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (nation)  ............  Luxembourg (nation) (P)

Place Types:
nation (preferred, C)  ............  initially an independent entity under Siegfried in 963; granted political autonomy by Netherlands in 1838
primary political unit (C)
independent sovereign nation (C)
constitutional monarchy (C)
countship (H)  ............  first, under Conrad in 1060

Related geographic places:
capital is ....  Luxembourg .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Europe, Luxembourg, Luxembourg) [7006254]
historical connection ....  Austrian Netherlands .......... (historical region)
........................................  (World, Europe) [8711668]
historical connection ....  Southern Netherlands .......... (historical region)
........................................  (World, Europe) [8711669]
historical connection ....  Spanish Netherlands .......... (historical region)
........................................  (World, Europe) [8711667]
member of ....  European Community .......... (association)
................  (World, Europe) [7000209]
member of ....  European Union .......... (union)
................  (World, Europe) [7030305]
................  since 1958
member of ....  Euro Zone .......... (union)
................  (World, Europe) [7033130]
member of ....  North Atlantic Treaty Organization .......... (organization)
................  (World) [7029610]
member of ....  United Nations .......... (organization)
................  (World) [7029605]
................  joined organization in 1945

Sources and Contributors:
Люксембург..........  [VP]
.......................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
Великое Герцогство Люксембург..........  [VP]
..................................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
卢森堡..........  [VP]
...........  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
卢森堡大公国..........  [VP]
.................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
دوك ةِ ىًسمبرغ ا ىًبرى..........  [VP]
.........................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
ىًسمبرغ..........  [VP]
.................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
לוקסמבורג..........  [IMJ]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Grand-Duché de Luxembourg..........  [VP]
............................................  Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 645
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg..........  [BHA, VP]
............................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
............................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
Gran Ducado de Luxemburgo..........  [VP]
............................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
Großherzogtum Luxemburg..........  [VP]
.........................................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
Grossherzogtum Luxemburg..........  [VP]
.........................................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 656
.........................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 576 ff.
Gross-Herzogtum Luxemburg..........  [VP]
............................................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 377-378
Grousherzogdem Lëtzebuerg..........  [VP]
............................................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 376-377
ISO442..........  [VP]
.................  ISO Country Codes (1996) 17
Lëtzebuerg..........  [VP]
.......................  UNGEGN List of Country Names (2007) accessed 18 June 2009
Letzebuerg..........  [VP]
.......................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
Letzeburg..........  [BHA, VP]
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Lezebuurg..........  [VP]
....................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
LU..........  [VP]
...........  ISO Country Codes (1996) 17
LU00..........  [VP]
...........  NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) 49
Lützelburg..........  [BHA, VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 539
LUX..........  [VP]
...........  ISO Handbook (1988) 780
Luxembourg..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.......................  CIA, World Fact Book (1999) accessed 03/30/00
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................  National Geographic Atlas (1987) 153
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1990) plate 61
.......................  Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-55
.......................  UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 64
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Luxembourgeois..........  [VP]
.............................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-) accessed 20 January 2004
Luxemburg..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
....................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Luxemburgo..........  [VP]
.......................  Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978) 865
.......................  UNGEGN Working Paper 54 (2011) accessed 25 July 2013
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1991) 645
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 656
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 376-377; 377-378
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 539
..................  Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978) 865
..................  CIA, World Fact Book (1999) accessed 03/30/00
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1976)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 576 ff.
..................  ISO Country Codes (1996) 17
..................  ISO Handbook (1988) 780
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  National Geographic Atlas (1987) 153
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999) 49
..................  Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-) accessed 20 January 2004
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1990) plate 61
..................  Times Concise Atlas of the World (1995) I-55
..................  UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993) 64
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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