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ID: 7005971
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005971
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Flensburg (inhabited place)  Flensburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 47 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 54.7833  decimal degrees
Long: 009 26 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.4333  decimal degrees

Note: Located at head of Flensburg fjord, is northernmost large German city; was prominent port by 16th cen.; often pillaged by Swedes; ruled by Denmark, then by Prussia after war of 1864; in plebiscite of 1920 voted to remain German; heavily bombed in WW II.

Names:
Flensburg (preferred,C,V)
Flensborg (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Germany (nation)  ........  Germany (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Schleswig-Holstein (state)  ............  Schleswig-Holstein (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Flensburg (inhabited place)  ................  Flensburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 1240, chartered in 1284
city (C)
seaport (C)
manufacturing center (C)
shipbuilding center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Schleswig under Danish rule, from 1848

Sources and Contributors:
Flensborg..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 829
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Flensburg..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 295
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 399-400
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 295
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 829
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1770407
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 399-400
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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