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ID: 7006999
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006999
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bolsward (inhabited place)  Bolsward (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 005 32 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Established as a settlement in ca. 715 CE, and by 870 a residential tower was built. Important as a maritime center in the late Middle Ages, it was granted a charter in 1455. Emperor Sigismund made it a member of the Hanseatic League in 1422. Important center for cloth production.

Names:
Bolsward (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 Friesland (province)  ............  Friesland (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Bolsward (inhabited place)  ................  Bolsward (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bolsward..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 31
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2141592
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 31
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Phaidon Art Guide: Holland (1987) 48

 

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