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ID: 7007288
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007288
Record Type:
administrative
Locarno (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 10 01 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.1669
decimal degrees
Long: 008 47 34 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.7927
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of prehistoric settlement; first documented in 789; possession of dukes of Milan from 1342, taken by Swiss in 1513; part of Ticino since 1803; noted for castle dating to 14th cen.; population is Catholic & language is Italian.
Names:
Locarno
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
Italian
,
U
)
Luggarus
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Schweiz
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ticino
(canton) (
P
)
................
Locarno
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in prehistoric times
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Locarno..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 431
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
114
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Luggarus..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1986)
I-134
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 431
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2552936
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1986)
I-134
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
114
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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