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ID: 7007059
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007059
Record Type:
administrative
Bergen (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 60 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 60.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 005 20 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by king Olaf III; became important commercial & political center after castle was built in 1100; German Hanseatic merchants controlled trade 14th-18th cen.; was destroyed by fire several times, & rebuilt.
Names:
Bergen
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bjørgvin
(
H
,
V
)
Bjorgvin
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Norway
(nation) (
P
)
............
Vestland
(county) (
P,
U
)
................
Bergen
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1070
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
episcopal see (
H
)
............
from 12th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Bergen..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
26
Bjørgvin..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 125
Bjorgvin..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 96
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 96
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 125
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
26
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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