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ID: 7007427
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007427
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Näfels (inhabited place)  Näfels (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 05 52 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.0978  decimal degrees
Long: 009 03 49 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.0636  decimal degrees

Note: Site of a famous battle in 1388, in which the Swiss, numbering only 600, defeated the Austrians.

Names:
Näfels (preferred,C,V,German,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Schweiz (nation)  ........  Schweiz (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Glarus (canton)  ............  Glarus (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Näfels (inhabited place)  ................  Näfels (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Näfels..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 135
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2553296
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 135
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1989) 263

 

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