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ID: 7004719
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004719
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wismar (inhabited place)  Wismar (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 54 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.9000  decimal degrees
Long: 011 28 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 11.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Wismarbucht, an inlet of the Baltic Sea; was flourishing medieval center & wealthy member of Hanseatic League, trading mainly in herring & beer; went to Sweden in 1648, to Denmark in 1649, to Mecklenburg-Schwerin after 1803; damaged in WW II.

Names:
Wismar (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (state)  ............  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Wismar (inhabited place)  ................  Wismar (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 1229, chartered before 1250
city (C)
seaport (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
fishing community (C)
shipbuilding center (C)
noble seat (H)  ............  of princes of Mecklenburg, 1256-1306

Sources and Contributors:
Wismar..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1024
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 713
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 216
.................  USBGN: Germany-DDR (1983)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1347
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1024
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 713
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1889625
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 216
..................  USBGN: Germany-DDR (1983)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1347
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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