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ID: 7009837
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009837
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lund (inhabited place)  Lund (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 42 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 55.7000  decimal degrees
Long: 013 10 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.1667  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by Danish king Canute in 11th cen.; important center of Danish affairs through Middle Ages; declined after the Reformation; conquered by Sweden in 1685; city developed rapidly after 1850.

Names:
Lund (preferred,C,V)
Lunda (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Sweden (nation)  ........  Sweden (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Skåne (county)  ............  Skåne (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Lund (inhabited place)  ................  Lund (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded ca. 1020
city (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in 1060, now seat of Lutheran bishop

Sources and Contributors:
Lund..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 7:560
...........  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 116
...........  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Lunda..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 538
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 538
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 560; 7:560
..................  National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 116
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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