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ID: 7003693
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003693

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pfalz (general region)  Pfalz (general region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 32 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.5333  decimal degrees
Long: 008 21 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.3500  decimal degrees

Note: The area of Palatine in western Germany took its name from the title of its medieval lords, the counts Palatine, princes who were among the primary secular leaders of the Holy Roman Empire. The name Palatine is generally used to refer to two geographically separate regions, the Lower and the Upper Palatinate. The Lower Palatinate occupied both banks of the mid-Rhine between its Neckar and Main tributaries. Today it is mostly part of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria on both sides of the Naab river, stretching to the east as far as the Bohemian forest. Generally boundaries and political condition of the entire Palatinate

Names:
Pfalz (preferred,C,V,German,U,N)
Palatinate (C,O,English-P,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Deutschland (nation)  ........  Deutschland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pfalz (general region)  ............  Pfalz (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Palatinate..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) "Palatinate." http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9058059&query=Pfalz&ct=eb#TOP 3 Jan. 2005
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 352
Pfalz..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) "Palatinate." http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9058059&query=Pfalz&ct=eb#TOP (3 Jan. 2005)
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) "Palatinate." http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9058059&query=Pfalz&ct=eb#TOP (3 Jan. 2005); "Palatinate." http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9058059&query=Pfalz&ct=eb#TOP 3 Jan. 2005
..................  LC Name Authority Headings. [online] (2002-) Palatinate (Germany) NAF85071588 (3 Jan. 2005)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 352
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) "Palatinate." http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article?tocId=9058059&query=Pfalz&ct=eb#TOP (3 Jan. 2005)

 

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