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ID: 7005080
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005080
Record Type:
administrative
Gelsenkirchen (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 007 03 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Rhein-Herne-Kanal N of Essen, bisected by Emscher river; old village grew suddenly & annexed neighbors after coal mines opened in 1853; was bombed in WW II, though 3 old castles survived; city today is dominated by heavy industry.
Names:
Gelsenkirchen
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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Germany
(nation) (
P
)
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North Rhine-Westphalia
(state) (
P
)
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Gelsenkirchen
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
grew from small village with opening of coal mines in 19th cen., chartered in 1875, absorbed neighboring Buer & Horst in 1928
city (
C
)
inland port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
............
after 1853
Sources and Contributors:
Gelsenkirchen..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 168
..........................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1990)
73
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
71
..........................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 168
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1775230
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1990)
73
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
71
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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