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ID: 7009941
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009941
Record Type:
administrative
Helsingborg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 56 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 56.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 012 45 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 12.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Strategically located at the narrowest part of the Öresund, opposite the Danish town of Hilsingør; was point where most commercial & military traffic crossed to & from the Continent, & was therefore strongly fortified early in its history.
Names:
Helsingborg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hälsingborg
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sweden
(nation) (
P
)
............
Skåne
(county) (
P
)
................
Helsingborg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first documented in 1085
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Hälsingborg..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 370
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 651
.......................
Reclams: Schweden (1985)
.......................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Helsingborg..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
83
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 370
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 651
..................
Reclams: Schweden (1985)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
83
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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