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ID: 7007289
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007289
Record Type:
administrative
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:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Switzerland
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ticino
(canton) (
P
)
................
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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