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ID: 7003056
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003056
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Eisenstadt (inhabited place)  Eisenstadt (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 50 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 016 32 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Eisenstadt is located in eastern Austria at the southern foot of the Leitha Mountains. Mentioned as a medieval center in 1264, it was a free city under Hungary from 1648 to 1920. It is noted as the home of Joseph Haydn from 1766 to 1790, when the powerful Esterházy family was his patron. It has served as the capital of Burgenland since 1925.

Names:
Eisenstadt (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Austria (nation)  ........  Austria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Burgenland (state)  ............  Burgenland (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Eisenstadt (inhabited place)  ................  Eisenstadt (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 1264
town (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since 1925

Sources and Contributors:
Eisenstadt..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Brockhaus, Deutsche Kunst (1916)
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 269
.......................  Muveszettorteneti Ertesito Valkó, XXXIII/1 (1984), 76-77
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 61
.......................  USBGN: Austria (1962)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 362
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Brockhaus, Deutsche Kunst (1916)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 269
..................  Muveszettorteneti Ertesito Valkó, XXXIII/1 (1984), 76-77
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 61
..................  USBGN: Austria (1962)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 362
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) vol. 4

 

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