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ID: 1063209
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1063209
Record Type:
administrative
Karlstad (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 59 24 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 59.4000
decimal degrees
Long: 013 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 13.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Was a medieval trading center & meeting place for the legislature; chartered & renamed by Charles IX in 16th cen.; was destroyed by fire in 1865 & rebuilt; noted as the site of the dissolution of the union of Sweden & Norway in 1905.
Names:
Karlstad
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named after Charles IX in 16th cen.
Tingvalla
(
H
,
V
)
............
original name, refers to meeting of the "ting" (legislature) that was held here
Thingvalla
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sweden
(nation) (
P
)
............
Värmland
(county) (
P
)
................
Karlstad
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
chartered in 1584
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
............
established in 1779
episcopal see (
C
)
............
established in 1645
Sources and Contributors:
Karlstad..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 745
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
97
Thingvalla..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 464
Tingvalla..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 745
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 464
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 745
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
97
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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