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ID: 7008040
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008040
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (inhabited place)  Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 47 38 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.7939  decimal degrees
Long: 002 29 36 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.4932  decimal degrees

Note: Abbey was founded here by Benedictine monks from Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loire, who fled from Norman invaders in 7th cen.; abbey was powerful in Middle Ages, secularized in 16th cen., destroyed 1973; is now a residential area; produces felt, cork & chemicals.

Names:
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (preferred,C,V)
Saint-Maur (C,V)
Saint-Maur-les-Fossés (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 Île-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Île-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (inhabited place)  ................  Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  grew up around a 7th-cen. abbey
town (C)
suburb (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Saint-Maur..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
......................................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
......................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 330
......................................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
......................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
......................................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 171
......................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1052
Saint-Maur-les-Fossés..........  [VP]
......................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 330
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1467285
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 171
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1052
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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