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ID: 7003367
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003367
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Vaduz (inhabited place)  Vaduz (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 08 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.1333  decimal degrees
Long: 009 32 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient town was destroyed in Swabian War between the Swiss & the emperor in 1499; rebuilt by 1526; seat of the Vaistlis during the Middle Ages; town is dominated by 12th-cen. castle.

Names:
Vaduz (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Liechtenstein (nation)  ........  Liechtenstein (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Vaduz (commune (administrative))  ............  Vaduz (commune (administrative)) (P)
Hierarchy of Vaduz (inhabited place)  ................  Vaduz (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  rebuilt after 1499
town (C)
national capital (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Liechtenstein .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Europe) [7003515]

Sources and Contributors:
Vaduz..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 681
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 979
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 202
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1281
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 681
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 979
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 202
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1281
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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