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ID: 7009826
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009826
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kalmar (inhabited place)  Kalmar (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 56 39 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 56.6500  decimal degrees
Long: 016 20 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 16.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the Baltic Sea; noted for 12th-cen. castle, known as the "key of Sweden" for having withstood many sieges from 14th to 17th cen.; taken by Danes in 17th-cen. Kalmar War; was center for Kalmar Union that united Scandinavia under one monarchy.

Names:
Kalmar (preferred,C,V)
Calmar (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Sverige (nation)  ........  Sverige (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Kalmar (county)  ............  Kalmar (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Kalmar (inhabited place)  ................  Kalmar (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  documented as an important trading center in 8th cen.
city (C)
county seat (C)
seaport (C)
trade center (C)
political center (H)  ............  was center for Kalmar Union 1397-1523

Sources and Contributors:
Calmar..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-28
Kalmar..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 95
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 456
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-28
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 95
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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