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ID: 4007173
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4007173
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Middelburg (inhabited place)  Middelburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 15 22 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.2561  decimal degrees
Long: 003 24 57 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.4160  decimal degrees

Note: Main town of the province of Zeeland. First mentioned as a settlement that grew up around a castle in 1103. Expanded in 1549-1591 and 1595-1598. Prospered until ca. 1600. Seriously damaged from bombs dropped on May 17 1940.

Names:
Middelburg (preferred,C,V)
Middelbourg (NA,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Belgium (nation)  ........  Belgium (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Flanders (region (administrative division))  ............  Flanders (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of East Flanders (province)  ................  East Flanders (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Middelburg (inhabited place)  ....................  Middelburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)  ............  conferred in 1217
trade center (C)  ............  during the Middle Ages

Sources and Contributors:
Middelbourg..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Middelburg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Archivum Artis Lovaniense (1981) 45
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Panofsky, Netherlandish Painting (1958) 276
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 61
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Archivum Artis Lovaniense (1981) 45
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1965229
..................  Panofsky, Netherlandish Painting (1958) 276
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) plate 61
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Phaidon Art Guide: Holland (1987) 171

 

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