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ID: 7007325
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007325
Record Type:
administrative
Brig (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 19 02 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.3172
decimal degrees
Long: 007 59 38 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.9939
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Rhône River, 26 m. S of Interlaken. A possession of the bishops of Sion in the 13th century, and was a center of trade with Italy.
Names:
Brig
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
German
,
U
)
Brigue
(
C
,
V
,
French
,
U
,
N
)
Briga Dives
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Switzerland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Valais
(canton) (
P
)
................
Brig
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Brig..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
34
...........
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Briga Dives..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
V. I, p. 123
Brigue..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
V. I, p. 123
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2551394
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
34
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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