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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 Finland (nation)  ........  Finland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Central Finland Region (region (administrative division))  ............  Central Finland Region (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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