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ID: 7009813
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009813
Record Type:
administrative
Falun (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 60 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 60.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 015 40 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 15.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Flourished early due to surrounding copper deposits, which are now largely depleted; is still headquarters of Stora Kopparberg mining company, founded 1347; it funded King Gustav II's campaigns in Thirty Years War.
Names:
Falun
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fahlun
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sverige
(nation) (
P
)
............
Dalarna
(county) (
P
)
................
Falun
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an early center
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
............
for iron & pyrite; formerly was copper-mining center
Sources and Contributors:
Fahlun..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 289
Falun..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
389
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 289
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
389
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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