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ID: 7009865
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009865
Record Type:
administrative
Umeå (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 63 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 63.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 020 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 20.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Umeälv (river) near Gulf of Bothnia; incorporated by Gustavus II Adolphus in 17th cen.; burned by Russia in 1720; destroyed several other times by fire & rebuilt, most recently after 1888; manufactures wood products.
Names:
Umeå
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sweden
(nation) (
P
)
............
Västerbotten
(county) (
P
)
................
Umeå
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
incorporated in 1622
town (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Umeå..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 964
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 123
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
204
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 964
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 123
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
204
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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