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ID: 7009594
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009594
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Stavanger (inhabited place)  Stavanger (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 58 58 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 58.9667  decimal degrees
Long: 005 45 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Seaport located on a peninsula between the Norwegian Sea & an arm of the Boknafjorden; was seat of bishopric from 12th cen., when cathedral of St. Swithin was built; now industries include fish processing, shipbuilding, shipping & oil refining.

Names:
Stavanger (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Norway (nation)  ........  Norway (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Rogaland (county)  ............  Rogaland (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Stavanger (inhabited place)  ................  Stavanger (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in the 8th cen., chartered in 1425
city (C)
county seat (C)
port (C)
episcopal see (B)  ............  Roman Catholic, from ca. 1125 to 1682; Lutheran, since 1925

Sources and Contributors:
Stavanger..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 890
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 227
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 189
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 890
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 227
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 189
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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