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ID: 7007289
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007289
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lugano (inhabited place)  Lugano (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 00 33 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.0093  decimal degrees
Long: 008 57 20 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.9556  decimal degrees

Note: Possession of Milan, town was occupied by French in 1499, taken by Swiss in 1512; part of Ticino since 1803; was seat of bishop of Italian-speaking Switzerland from 1888.

Names:
Lugano (preferred,C,V,Italian,U)
Lauis (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Switzerland (nation)  ........  Switzerland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ticino (canton)  ............  Ticino (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Lugano (inhabited place)  ................  Lugano (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first documented in 6th cen. AD
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Lauis..........  [GRLPSC]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
Lugano..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Baedekers: Schweiz (1972)
.................  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1987) 569
.................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:537
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 549
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 116
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Schweiz (1972)
..................  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1987) 569
..................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 537; 1:537
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 549
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2552969
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 116
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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