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ID: 7008342
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008342
Record Type:
administrative
Epernay (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 02 32 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.0423
decimal degrees
Long: 003 57 29 E
degrees minutes
Long: 3.9581
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Marne river; established in ancient times; ruled by bishops of Rheims 5th-10th cen.; was heavily fortified in Middle Ages & was often attacked & burned; besieged by Henry IV in 1592; suffered attacks in World War I.
Names:
Épernay
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Epernay
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
אפרניי
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Sparnacum
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Grand Est
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Epernay
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient settlement
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
viniculture center (
C
)
............
with Rheims is main center for bottling Champagne, which is stored in caves in surrounding hills
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
produces earthenware & has railroad workshops
fortified settlement (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
אפרניי..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Epernay..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Épernay..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
62
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
374
Sparnacum..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 277
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 277
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1425294
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
62
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
374
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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