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ID: 7006254
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006254
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (inhabited place)  Luxembourg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 37 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.6167  decimal degrees
Long: 006 08 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Located in natural defensive position on rocky promontory in a loop of the Alzette river; originally a Roman, then Frankish fortress; medieval town grew up around the fortress; was bulwark of Prussians, fortifications were largely destroyed in 1867.

Names:
Luxembourg (preferred,C,V)  ............ name means "little fortress"
Luxemburg (C,V)
Letzeburg (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (nation)  ........  Luxembourg (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (canton)  ............  Luxembourg (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (inhabited place)  ................  Luxembourg (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Flanders (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Flanders (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Luxembourg (inhabited place)  ............  Luxembourg (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  built as a Roman fortress
city (C)
national capital (C)
commercial center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Luxembourg .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Europe) [7003514]

Sources and Contributors:
Letzeburg..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 539-540
Luxembourg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 377
.......................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 577-578
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 117
Luxemburg..........  [VP]
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 697
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 377
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 539-540
..................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 577-578
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 117
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 697
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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