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ID: 7009836
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009836
Record Type:
administrative
Luleå (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 65 34 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 65.5667
decimal degrees
Long: 022 10 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 22.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport located at the mouth of the Luleäv, where it enters the Gulf of Bothnia; founded by Gustavus II Adolphus in 1621, but moved down river when the town burned in 1649; again destroyed by fire in 1887 & rebuilt.
Names:
Luleå
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sverige
(nation) (
P
)
............
Norrbotten
(county) (
P
)
................
Luleå
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1621, but moved to present site in 1649
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
port (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
of Lutheran bishop
commercial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Luleå..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 556
..............
Nagel's: Sweden (1968)
107
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 556
..................
Nagel's: Sweden (1968)
107
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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