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ID: 7007306
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007306
Record Type:
administrative
Altdorf (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 52 50 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.8804
decimal degrees
Long: 008 38 40 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.6444
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Lake Lucerne. Famous as the site of the legendary arrow-shooting feat by William Tell, which is linked to the emergence of the Swiss nation and the formation of the Everlasting League against the Hapsburgs in 1291.
Names:
Altdorf
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
German
,
U
)
Altorf
(
C
,
V
)
Altendorfium
(
H
,
V
)
Altorfium
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Switzerland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Uri
(canton) (
P
)
................
Altdorf
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a medieval center
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Altdorf..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1986)
I-36
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Altendorfium..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
Altorf..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 27
Altorfium..........
[
VP
]
....................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
11
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 27
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2551007
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
15
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1986)
I-36
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
11
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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