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ID: 7017410
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017410
Record Type:
administrative
Saint-Brieuc (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 30 38 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.5105
decimal degrees
Long: 002 45 57 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.7659
decimal degrees
Note:
Named after Welsh monk, St. Briocus, who evangelized the region & established oratory there 6th cen.; site of massive fortified 13th-cen. cathedral of Saint-Étienne; a coastal & fishing port; sacked by Spanish 1592.
Names:
Saint-Brieuc
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Saint-Brieu
(
C
,
V
)
Briocum
(
H
,
V
)
............
named after St. Briocus
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bretagne
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Saint-Brieuc
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bretagne
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Saint-Brieuc
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 5th cen.
city (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
port (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
religious center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Briocum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
Saint-Brieu..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Saint-Brieuc..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 311
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
170
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1045
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 311
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1464183
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
170
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1045
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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