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ID: 7004456
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004456

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Magdeburg (inhabited place)  Magdeburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 011 40 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 11.6667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Elbe river; was Otto I's base for German colonization of Wendish lands; archbishop-princes ruled large area from 968; burned in 1188; joined Schmalkalden League 1531; 20,000 citizens were massacred in Thirty Years' War (1631); damaged in WW II.

Names:
Magdeburg (preferred,C,V)
Magdeburgo (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Saxony-Anhalt (state)  ............  Saxony-Anhalt (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Magdeburg (inhabited place)  ................  Magdeburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 805, expanded under Otto I in 10th cen., expanded after WW II
city (C)
state capital (C)
inland port (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  for metal working, heavy engineering, sugar refining, flour & textile milling & chemical manufacturing
commercial center (C)  ............  established by 13th cen., was member of Hanseatic League
transportation center (C)  ............  located at natural crossroads on the Elbe & linked to Mittelland Kanal, & at junction of major railway lines & highways
archiepiscopal see (H)  ............  established in 962, governed by Protestant titular archbishops after 1524, secular duchy in 1648
political center (H)  ............  famed for 13th-cen. Magdeburg Law, a municipal administration that was later adopted throughout eastern Europe
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Magdeburg..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 2:549
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 7:668
....................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 118
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 708
Magdeburgo..........  [VP]
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-103
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 549; 2:549
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 668; 7:668
..................  National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1822294
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-103
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 118
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 708
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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