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ID: 7005659
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005659
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Verbania (inhabited place)  Verbania (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 56 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.9333  decimal degrees
Long: 008 34 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.5667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Lake Maggiore (ancient Verbanus Lacus); today is a resort town noted for botanical gardens and 16th-century architecture; economy also relies on manufacture of textiles and machinery, and food processing.

Names:
Verbania (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Italia (nation)  ........  Italia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Piemonte (region (administrative division))  ............  Piemonte (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Verbano-Cusio Ossola (province)  ................  Verbano-Cusio Ossola (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Verbania (inhabited place)  ....................  Verbania (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  modern town was formed in 1939 by union of old towns of Pallanza & Intra
town (C)
industrial center (C)
resort center (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since about 1995

Sources and Contributors:
Verbania..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Annuario Generale (1980)
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 204
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1291
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -132046
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 204
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1291
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)

 

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