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ID: 7003119
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003119

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Feldkirch (inhabited place)  Feldkirch (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 15 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.2500  decimal degrees
Long: 009 38 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.6333  decimal degrees

Note: Developed in strategic location near the Arlberg Pass; was heavily fortified in Middle Ages; its count sold it to Austria in 1375; was famed for schools, particularly the Jesuit college founded in 1648; still noted for surviving medieval walls & castle.

Names:
Feldkirch (preferred,C,V)
Clunia (H,V)  ............ ancient name

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Austria (nation)  ........  Austria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Vorarlberg (state)  ............  Vorarlberg (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Feldkirch (inhabited place)  ................  Feldkirch (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ....  Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Raetia (historical region)  ........  Raetia (historical region) (P,H) from 15 BCE
Hierarchy of Feldkirch (inhabited place)  ............  Feldkirch (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient center
town (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)
fortified settlement (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Clunia..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 291
Feldkirch..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Baedekers: Austria (1970) 236
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 65
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 393
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Austria (1970) 236
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 291
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 65
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 393
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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