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ID: 7009845
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009845
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Norshoping (inhabited place)  Norshoping (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 58 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 58.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 016 10 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.1667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Motala river; noted as site of Late Bronze Age "Hällristningar" (rock carvings); was flourishing medieval center; often destroyed by fire, including in Northern War in 1719; falls in river have provided power for textile industry from 1660s.

Names:
Norrköping (preferred,C,V)
Norshoping (C,U,English-P)
נורשופינג (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Sweden (nation)  ........  Sweden (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Östergötland (county)  ............  Östergötland (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Norshoping (inhabited place)  ................  Norshoping (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was settled in Late Bronze Age, modern town was founded ca. 1350 & chartered in 1384
town (C)
port (C)
Bronze Age (H)

Sources and Contributors:
נורשופינג..........  [IMJ]
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Norrköping..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 668
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 771
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 141
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Norshoping..........  [IMJ Preferred]
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 668
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 771
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 141
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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