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ID: 7004718
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004718
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Stralsund (inhabited place)  Stralsund (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 54.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 013 06 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.1000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Strelasund inlet of the Baltic Sea, opposite Rügen island; was prominent member of Hanseatic League in 13th cen.; withstood siege in Thirty Years' War in 1628; went to Sweden in 1648, eventually went to Prussia in 1815; damaged in WW II.

Names:
Stralsund (preferred,C,V)
Strålsund (C,O)  ............ Swedish

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (state)  ............  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Stralsund (inhabited place)  ................  Stralsund (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  village on this site was documented by around 1200, chartered in 1234
city (C)
port (C)
manufacturing center (C)
shipbuilding center (C)
fish-processing center (C)
transportation center (C)  ............  was documented as ferrying center for Rügen island by 1200, now connected to island by a road & rail embankment
political center (H)  ............  site of signing of Treaty of Stralsund between Hanseatic League & Denmark in 1370

Sources and Contributors:
Stralsund..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 893
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 190
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1158
Strålsund..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 300
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 893
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 300
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1870735
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 190
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1158
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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