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ID: 7007301
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007301
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Winterthur (inhabited place)  Winterthur (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 30 20 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.5056  decimal degrees
Long: 008 43 27 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.7241  decimal degrees

Note: Located in a wooded basin E of the Töss River, it was originally a Roman settlement. Founded in the 12th cetury by the counts of Kyburg, it was taken by Hapsburgs in 1264 & by Zürich in 1467.

Names:
Winterthur (preferred,C,V,German,U)
Vitudurum (C,V)  ............ Roman

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established as a Roman settlement, modern town founded in ca. 1175
city (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Vitudurum..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1023
Winterthur..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 708-709
.......................  Knaurs: Schweiz (1982)
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 216
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1023
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 708-709
..................  Knaurs: Schweiz (1982)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2554859
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 216
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1989) 237

 

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