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ID: 7006825
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006825
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roosendaal (inhabited place)  Roosendaal (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 32 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.5333  decimal degrees
Long: 004 28 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 4.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Located near Belgian border; created when inhabitants of Nispen & other hamlets were given permission to build a church here in 13th cen.; early economy was based on selling peat from the surrounding bogs, especially by monks of Tongerlo (now in Belgium).

Names:
Roosendaal (preferred,C,V,Dutch,U)  ............ since 13th cen., meaning "valley of the roses"
Roosendaal en Nispen (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Netherlands (nation)  ........  Netherlands (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of North Brabant (province)  ............  North Brabant (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Roosendaal (inhabited place)  ................  Roosendaal (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established in 1268
city (C)
commercial center (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Roosendaal..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 172
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 167
Roosendaal en Nispen..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 172
...................................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 167
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 172
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2152364
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 167
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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