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ID: 7007425
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007425
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Murten (inhabited place)  Murten (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 55 37 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.9268  decimal degrees
Long: 007 06 37 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.1103  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Lake Morat, physically separate from Bern canton; founded by dukes of Zähringen in 12th cen.; Swiss defeated Charles the Bold of Burgundy here in 1476; noted for 13th-cen. castle, 15th-cen. French Gothic church & medieval town walls.

Names:
Murten (preferred,C,V)
Morat (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Schweiz (nation)  ........  Schweiz (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Fribourg (canton)  ............  Fribourg (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Murten (inhabited place)  ................  Murten (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 12th cen.
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Morat..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 620
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Murten..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 134
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 620
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2553283
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 134
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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