Luxembourg
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- Names
Luxembourg
Luxemburg
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located in natural defensive position on rocky promontory in a loop of the Alzette river; originally a Roman, then Frankish fortress; medieval town grew up around the fortress; was bulwark of Prussians, fortifications were largely destroyed in 1867.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Encyclopedia (1975); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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