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ID: 7004946
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004946
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ratingen (inhabited place)  Ratingen (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 006 51 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.8500  decimal degrees

Note: The city of Ratingen is located north of Düsseldorf in the northwestern German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was an important medieval town, and received its charter in 1276. Its historic old town center still survives. Today its local industry produces textiles, pottery, glass, tile, boilers, and machinery. The population estimate for 2004 was 92,500.

Names:
Ratingen (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
Ratingen (German,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North Rhine-Westphalia (state)  ............  North Rhine-Westphalia (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Ratingen (inhabited place)  ................  Ratingen (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  chartered 1276
city (C)
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ratingen..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 163
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1005
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  LC Name Authority Headings. [online] (2002-) Ratingen (Germany) NAF82084244 (29 Nov. 2004)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1846759
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 163
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1005
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1005
..........  World Gazetteer [online] (1990-2006) (29 Nov. 2004)

 

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