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ID: 7012211
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012211
Record Type:
administrative
Touraine (historical region)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 12 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 001 30 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 1.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Historical region of NW central France, called the "Garden of France" because of its fertile land; contested by counts of Blois & of Anjou in 10th cen.; passed to Anjou in 1044; annexed by France in early 13th cen.; declined after 1700.
Names:
Touraine
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tourraine
(
C
,
V
)
Turena
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Centre-Val de Loire
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Touraine
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
historical region (
preferred
,
C
)
province (
H
)
............
17th-18th cen.
general region (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Touraine..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 943
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Tourraine..........
[
GRLPSC
]
....................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Turena..........
[
VP
]
.................
Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983)
545
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 943
..................
Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983)
545
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1473191
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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