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ID: 7012790
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012790
Record Type:
administrative
Altenburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 012 27 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 12.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
One of oldest German cities E of Saale river; was seat of burgrave from 12th cen.; awarded to Saxon house of Wettin as fief of Holy Roman Empire 1329; burned by Hussites 1430; was important meeting site during Reformation.
Names:
Altenburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Altenburgum
(
H
,
O
)
Palaeopyrgum
(
H
,
O
)
Plisna
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Germany
(nation) (
P
)
............
Thuringia
(state) (
P
)
................
Altenburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first documented in 976
city (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
............
noted for playing card museum (3-handed game of Skat originated here) & art museum
capital (
H
)
............
of duchy of Saxe-Altenburg, 1603-1672 & 1926-1918
imperial city (
H
)
............
rights granted in 1134
Sources and Contributors:
Altenburg..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 27
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 299-300
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
11
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
40
Altenburgum..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
Palaeopyrgum..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
Plisna..........
[
VP
]
.................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 27
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 299-300
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1738789
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
11
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
40
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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