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ID: 7009825
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009825
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Jönköping (inhabited place)  Jönköping (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 57 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 57.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 014 10 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 14.1667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Vättern lake; Franciscan monks built a monastery here in 1283; due to strategic position, town was destroyed several times in wars between Denmark & Sweden; twice burnt by its own citizens to prevent capture by Danes; was rebuilt in 1614.

Names:
Jönköping (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Sweden (nation)  ........  Sweden (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Jönköping (county)  ............  Jönköping (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Jönköping (inhabited place)  ................  Jönköping (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town was chartered in 1284
city (C)
county seat (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Jönköping..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 446-447
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 611
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 93
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 446-447
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 611
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 93
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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