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ID: 7006831
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006831
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tilburg (inhabited place)  Tilburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 005 07 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.1167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Wilhelmina canal in a wooded area; city has grown since 1860 into one of chief industrial centers of the nation; produces woolen textiles; noted for town hall that is the former palace of King William II, who died here 1849.

Names:
Tilburg (preferred,C,V,Dutch,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Netherlands (nation)  ........  Netherlands (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North Brabant (province)  ............  North Brabant (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Tilburg (inhabited place)  ................  Tilburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was small village until rapid growth after 1860
city (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tilburg..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Baedekers: Benelux (1974) 276
.................  Blue Guide: Holland (1982) 99
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 773
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 198
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Benelux (1974) 276
..................  Blue Guide: Holland (1982) 99
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 773
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2153993
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 198
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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