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ID: 1031853
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1031853
Record Type:
administrative
Armentières (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 41 08 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.6857
decimal degrees
Long: 002 52 56 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.8821
decimal degrees
Note:
Name is derived from Latin for "herd," referring to cattle raised by Roman settlers; was important medieval trade center for linen; was destroyed during during World War I, but rebuilt; was occupied by Germans 1918 & again 1940-1944.
Names:
Armentières
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Armentariae
(
H
,
O
)
Armenteria
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
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France
(nation) (
P
)
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Hauts-de-France
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Armentières
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Romans, 57 BC
town (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Armentariae..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
28
Armenteria..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
28
Armentières..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 568
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
15
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
78
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 568
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1408405
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
28
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
15
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
78
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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