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ID: 7004945
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004945
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bottrop (inhabited place)  Bottrop (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 006 55 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.9167  decimal degrees

Note: Located at edge of Ruhr industrial region; was small peasant community dating from medieval times; coal industry developed in 19th cen.; most large religious & public structures in city were built in 1860; main industries are coal mining & coking.

Names:
Bottrop (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Deutschland (nation)  ........  Deutschland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nordrhein-Westfalen (state)  ............  Nordrhein-Westfalen (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Bottrop (inhabited place)  ................  Bottrop (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  documented in Middle Ages, though not chartered until 1921; nearby towns Kirchhellen & Gladbeck were annexed in 1975
city (C)
industrial center (C)
mining center (C)  ............  since coal was discovered nearby in late 19th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Bottrop..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 415
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 32
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 165
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 415
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1750861
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 32
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 165
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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