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ID: 1062938
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1062938
Record Type:
administrative
Eskilstuna (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 59 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 59.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 016 31 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.5167
decimal degrees
Note:
The town grew as the iron & steel industry was established here in 17th-18th cen.; today is one of nation's chief metallurgical centers.
Names:
Eskilstuna
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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Sverige
(nation) (
P
)
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Södermanland
(county) (
P
)
................
Eskilstuna
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
documented as a trade center by 12th cen., but not chartered until 1659
town (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Eskilstuna..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 558
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
63
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 558
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
63
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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