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ID: 7007301
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007301
Record Type:
administrative
Winterthur (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 30 20 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.5056
decimal degrees
Long: 008 43 27 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.7241
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in a wooded basin E of the Töss River, it was originally a Roman settlement. Founded in the 12th cetury by the counts of Kyburg, it was taken by Hapsburgs in 1264 & by Zürich in 1467.
Names:
Winterthur
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
German
,
U
)
Vitudurum
(
C
,
V
)
............
Roman
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Schweiz
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zürich
(canton) (
P
)
................
Winterthur
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established as a Roman settlement, modern town founded in ca. 1175
city (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Vitudurum..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1023
Winterthur..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 708-709
.......................
Knaurs: Schweiz (1982)
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
216
.......................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1023
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 708-709
..................
Knaurs: Schweiz (1982)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2554859
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
216
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Blue Guide: Switzerland (1989)
237
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