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ID: 6003499
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6003499
Record Type:
administrative
Loos-en-Gohelle (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 27 28 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.4579
decimal degrees
Long: 002 47 32 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.7922
decimal degrees
Note:
Captured by British (October 1915) with heavy losses in World War I during Marshal Joffre's campaign in Champagne; 14 British cemeteries are nearby.
Names:
Loos-en-Gohelle
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Loos
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Hauts-de-France
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Loos-en-Gohelle
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
............
September 15-October 13, 1915
Sources and Contributors:
Loos..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
348
Loos-en-Gohelle..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 530
.............................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
69
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 530
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1447789
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
69
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
348
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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