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ID: 7008008
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008008
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Meaux (inhabited place)  Meaux (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 57 49 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.9636  decimal degrees
Long: 002 52 57 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.8824  decimal degrees

Note: Located in important agricultural region; has been an agricultural market center since medieval times; belonged to counts of Champagne 923-1361; was first diocese in France to shelter Reformers during Wars of Religion in late 16th cen.

Names:
Meaux (preferred,C,V)
Iatinum (H,V)  ............ Roman
Latinum (H,V)  ............ Roman name
Meldi (H,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 Île-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Île-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Meaux (inhabited place)  ................  Meaux (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was thriving medieval center
town (C)
commune (administrative) (C)
industrial center (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  since medieval times
market center (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  since 375 AD

Sources and Contributors:
Iatinum..........  [VP]
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 402
Latinum..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 993
Meaux..........  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 125
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 745
Meldi..........  [VP]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 993
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 993
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1450618
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 402
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 125
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 745
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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