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ID: 7008215
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008215
Record Type:
administrative
Coutances (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 03 08 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.0521
decimal degrees
Long: 001 26 19 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.4387
decimal degrees
Note:
Was chief town of pre-Roman Gaul and center for Unelli Celtic tribe; fortified by Romans; was seat of viscount during the Middle Ages and suffered frequent sieges; heavily damaged in World War II.
Names:
Coutances
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Constantia
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name, named for Constantius Chlorus who fortified the site
Cosedia
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Normandie
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Coutances
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Normandy
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
................
Coutances
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was ancient Celtic town
town (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
13th-century cathedral is built on site of 11th-century church
Sources and Contributors:
Constantia..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 209
Cosedia..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 209
Coutances..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
50
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
296
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
1; 209; I, 209
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1422522
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
50
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
296
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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