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ID: 1038718
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1038718
Record Type:
administrative
Castrop-Rauxel (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 007 19 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in the Ruhr industrial district; Castrop is documented since 9th cen.; belonged to duchy of Kleve-Mark until 1609; modern city was formed by amalgamation of 12 districts (including Rauxel) in 1926.
Names:
Castrop-Rauxel
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
name used since 1926
Castrop-Rauxel, Stadt
(
NA
,
V
)
Stadt Castrop-Rauxel
(
NA
,
V
)
Castrop
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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Germany
(nation) (
P
)
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North Rhine-Westphalia
(state) (
P
)
................
Castrop-Rauxel
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
Castrop was first documented in 834; chartered in 1484; modern city formed in 1926
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Castrop..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 942
Castrop-Rauxel..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 942
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Castrop-Rauxel, Stadt..........
[
VP
]
......................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Stadt Castrop-Rauxel..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 942
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1756401
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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