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ID: 7005864
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005864
Record Type:
administrative
Lecco (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 45 51 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 45.8500
decimal degrees
Long: 009 23 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 9.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Lake Como near Adda River; passed to bishops of Como 11th cen. & to Milan 12th cen.; fortified by Visconti family in 14th cen. & made a countship in 1647; cheese market is notable for its gorgonzola.
Names:
Lecco
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Lombardy
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Lecco
(province) (
P
)
....................
Lecco
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since about 1995
Sources and Contributors:
Lecco..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Annuario Generale (1980)
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 230
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
TCI: Lombardia (1987)
..............
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
108
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Annuario Generale (1980)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 230
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-119928
..................
TCI: Lombardia (1987)
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
108
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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