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ID: 7002881
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Franche-Comté (region)  Franche-Comté (region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 006 05 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 6.0833  decimal degrees

Note: Part of kingdom of Burgundy 5th cen.; part of kingdom of Arles; went to Holy Roman Empire in 12th cen.; under duchy of Burgundy from 1384; went to Spanish Hapsburgs via Charles V; occupied by Louis XIV in 17th cen.

Names:
Franche-Comté (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Franche-Comté (region)  ............  Franche-Comté (region) (P)

Place Types:
region (preferred, C)
first level subdivision (C)
county (H)  ............  of Burgundy, distinct from duchy of Burgundy, 9th cen.-16th cen.
province (H)  ............  of Eastern France, 17th cen.-Revolution

Sources and Contributors:
Franche-Comté..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..........................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 211
..........................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XIX, 427
..........................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984) 26
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 68
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 414
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 211
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XIX, 427
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984) 26
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 68
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 414
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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