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ID: 7011868
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011868
Record Type:
administrative
Harwich (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 001 18 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 1.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on tip of peninsula extending into estuary of rivers Stour & Orwell; site of naval battle 885, where Alfred the Great defeated Danes; was a major shipbuilding center 14th-17th cen.; naval base during WW I.
Names:
Harwich
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preferred
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C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Harwick
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NA
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
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Europe
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United Kingdom
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England
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Essex
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Harwich
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Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
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was important early center
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Harwich..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 734
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
81
Harwick..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 734
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2598239
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
81
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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