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ID: 7006973
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006973
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Assen (inhabited place)  Assen (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 006 33 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.5500  decimal degrees

Note: Built around a small convent in the 13th century, it was chartered in 1807 when Louis Bonaparte made it provincial capital. Site of remains of 13th-century Cistercian convent church. The "Giants' Caves" mentioned by Tacitus, and prehistoric monuments resembling Stonehenge are nearby.

Names:
Assen (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 Drenthe (province)  ............  Drenthe (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Assen (inhabited place)  ................  Assen (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1257, though prehistoric settlements had existed nearby
city (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since 19th cen.
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Assen..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 1:643
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 17
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 643; 1:643
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2140640
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 17
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 86
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 1:643
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 86

 

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