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ID: 7005864
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005864
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lecco (inhabited place)  Lecco (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 009 23 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Lake Como near Adda River; passed to bishops of Como 11th cen. & to Milan 12th cen.; fortified by Visconti family in 14th cen. & made a countship in 1647; cheese market is notable for its gorgonzola.

Names:
Lecco (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 Lombardia (region (administrative division))  ............  Lombardia (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Lecco (province)  ................  Lecco (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Lecco (inhabited place)  ....................  Lecco (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
manufacturing center (C)
tourist center (C)
market center (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since about 1995

Sources and Contributors:
Lecco..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Annuario Generale (1980)
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 230
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  TCI: Lombardia (1987)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 108
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Annuario Generale (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 230
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -119928
..................  TCI: Lombardia (1987)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 108
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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