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ID: 7006750
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006750
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Flushing (inhabited place)  Flushing (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 003 35 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.5833  decimal degrees

Note: Located at the mouth of the W Scheldt estuary; was of strategic importance in controlling the approach to Antwerp; was medieval center for herring fishing, & trading town; heavily damaged in WW II when it was flooded to allow British access to Antwerp.

Names:
Vlissingen (preferred,C,V,Dutch,U)
Flushing (C,O,English-P,U,N)
Flushing (Dutch,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Netherlands (nation)  ........  Netherlands (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Zeeland (province)  ............  Zeeland (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Walcheren (island)  ................  Walcheren (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Flushing (inhabited place)  ....................  Flushing (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  prospered as medieval trading town
town (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Flushing..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 413
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Vlissingen..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 210
.......................  Van Goor's Nederland (1968)
.......................  Winkler Prins (1966-1975)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 413
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2154903
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 210
..................  Van Goor's Nederland (1968)
..................  Winkler Prins (1966-1975)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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