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Lubeck (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 53 52 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 53.8667 decimal degrees |
| Long: 010 42 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 10.7000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on Trave & Wakenitz rivers, near Baltic Sea; was seat of Slavic principality; German city founded by count of Holstein in 12th cen.; destroyed by fire, but rebuilt by Henry the Lion in 1159; |
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| Lübeck (preferred,C,V)
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| Lubeck (C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Lübeck Hansestadt (NA,V)
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| ליבק (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Liubice (H,V)
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............ | name of Slavic settlement |
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Lubeck (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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German city was founded on site of Slavic settlement in 1143 |
| city (C) |
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| seaport (C) |
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| commercial center (C) |
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long has prospered as center for trade, was head of Hanseatic League from 1358 |
| manufacturing center (C) |
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| imperial city (H) |
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status granted in 1226 |
| political center (H) |
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noted for "Laws of Lübeck," a medieval system of laws & constitution that were adopted by over 100 Baltic cities |
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