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ID: 7006856
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006856
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roermond (inhabited place)  Roermond (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 12 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.2000  decimal degrees
Long: 006 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Located at the point where the Roer River flows into the Maas. Count Gerard van Gelre founded a Cistercian abbey in 1218. Granted a charter n 124. Fell to Spain and later to Austria after the Eighty Years War. Part of the Kingdom of the United Netherlands since 1815. Site of a the bishopric of Roermond was founded in 1559, abolished in 1801, and re-established in 1853.

Names:
Roermond (preferred,C,V,Dutch,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Netherlands (nation)  ........  Netherlands (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Limburg (province)  ............  Limburg (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Roermond (inhabited place)  ................  Roermond (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Roermond..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Bildhandbuch: Niederlanden (1971) 398
.................  Blue Guide: Holland (1982) 296
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Phaidon Art Guide: Holland (1987) 205
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 166
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Bildhandbuch: Niederlanden (1971) 398
..................  Blue Guide: Holland (1982) 296
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2152294
..................  Phaidon Art Guide: Holland (1987) 205
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 166
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Phaidon Art Guide: Holland (1987) 205

 

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