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ID: 7005081
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005081
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Herten (inhabited place)  Herten (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 36 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.6000  decimal degrees
Long: 007 08 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Located in industrial Ruhr area; was dependency of the abbots of Werden in 9th cen.; owned by several lords from 14th cen.; was fortified in 1528 & extended in 17th cen.; town expanded after opening of coal mines in 19th cen.

Names:
Herten (preferred,C,V)
Herten in Westfalen (C,V)

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 Herten (inhabited place)  ................  Herten (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 9th cen., chartered in 1936
city (C)
mining center (C)  ............  coal mines opened in 1872
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Herten..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 890
.................  Knaurs: Deutschland (1976) 326
.................  Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 83
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Herten in Westfalen..........  [VP]
...................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 501
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 890
..................  Knaurs: Deutschland (1976) 326
..................  Müllers Deutsches Ortsbuch (1988)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1791183
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 83
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 501
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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