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ID: 7006255
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006255
Record Type:
administrative
Esch-sur-Alzette (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 005 59 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on S frontier with France in important wine-producing region; bisected by Alzette & Mess rivers; heavy industries were developed in 19th cen. when Brown Jura iron ore deposits were extensively mined nearby.
Names:
Esch-sur-Alzette
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Esch
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Luxembourg
(nation) (
P
)
............
Esch-sur-Alzette
(canton) (
P
)
................
Esch-sur-Alzette
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
original village grew rapidly after 1870
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Esch..........
[
GRLPSC
]
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Esch-sur-Alzette..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
193
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 554
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
63
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
193
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 554
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
63
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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