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ID: 7007320
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007320
Record Type:
administrative
Biel/Bienne (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 08 30 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.1417
decimal degrees
Long: 007 15 27 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.2576
decimal degrees
Note:
Settled by Celts; inhabited by Romans; modern town was founded in the 11th cen. & chartered in 1275; ruled by prince-bishops of Basel until 1352; currently situated on language boundary of nation, both French & German are official languages.
Names:
Biel/Bienne
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Biel
(
C
,
V
,
German
,
U
)
Bienne
(
C
,
V
,
French
,
U
)
Belenus
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Schweiz
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bern
(canton) (
P
)
................
Biel/Bienne
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established by Celts
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Belenus..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 203
Biel..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
...........
Baedekers: Schweiz (1986)
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
27
...........
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Biel/Bienne..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Bienne..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Baedekers: Schweiz (1986)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 203
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2551274
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
27
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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