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ID: 7009872
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009872
Record Type:
administrative
Västerås (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 59 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 59.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 016 33 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 16.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
Large inland port was the cause of the town becoming one of the greatest medieval cities of Sweden; was site of many important diets, including that where the Lutheran state church was introduced by Gustavus Vasa in 1527.
Names:
Västerås
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Westerås
(
C
,
O
)
Västra Aros
(
H
,
V
)
............
meaning "West" Aros
Aros
(
H
,
V
)
............
original name, meaning "river mouth"
Arosia
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sweden
(nation) (
P
)
............
Västmanland
(county) (
P
)
................
Västerås
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 12th cen.
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
episcopal see (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Aros..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 279
Arosia..........
[
VP
]
.................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
29
Västerås..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 983
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
209
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Västra Aros..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 279
Westerås..........
[
VP
]
.................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
29
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 983
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 279
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
29
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
209
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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