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ID: 7007466
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007466
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sempach (inhabited place)  Sempach (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 08 01 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.1336  decimal degrees
Long: 008 11 35 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.1929  decimal degrees

Note: Located on lake Sempach; noted as site of battle in 1386 when Swiss confederates defeated Austrian Hapsburg army under Duke Leopold.

Names:
Sempach (preferred,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 Luzern (canton)  ............  Luzern (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Sempach (inhabited place)  ................  Sempach (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Sempach..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 847-848
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 179
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 847-848
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2554192
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 179
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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