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ID: 7007441
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007441
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Payerne (inhabited place)  Payerne (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 49 19 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.8220  decimal degrees
Long: 006 56 10 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.9361  decimal degrees

Note: Located 10 miles W of Fribourg. Once capital of Transjuran Burgundy and the seat of a Cluniac abbey founded in the 10th century by Queen Bertha. In 1536, it passed from the house of Savoy to Berne.

Names:
Payerne (preferred,C,V)
Peterlingen (C,V)
Paterniacum (H,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 Vaud (canton)  ............  Vaud (canton) (P)
Hierarchy of Payerne (inhabited place)  ................  Payerne (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was late Hallstatt site
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Paterniacum..........  [VP]
.......................  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1989) 123
Payerne..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 719
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 151
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Peterlingen..........  [VP]
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1989) 123
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 719
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2553573
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 151
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 353
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Blue Guide: Switzerland (1989) 123

 

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