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ID: 7009882
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009882
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Jyväskylä (inhabited place)  Jyväskylä (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 62 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 62.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 025 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 25.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Päjänne lake; noted as site of 3 important historic educational institutions, which were the Finnish teachers' college (1863), the Lyceum (first Finnish-language secondary school, opened 1858) & the first Finnish girls' school (1864).

Names:
Jyväskylä (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Suomi (nation)  ........  Suomi (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Keski-Suomi (region (administrative division))  ............  Keski-Suomi (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Jyväskylä (inhabited place)  ................  Jyväskylä (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  chartered in 1837
town (C)
educational center (C)
provincial capital (H)  ............  of the former province of Keski-Suomi until 1998

Sources and Contributors:
Jyväskylä..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 668
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 93
....................  USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998) 2
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 668
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 93
..................  USBGN Bulletin 16 (1998) 2
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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