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ID: 7008508
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008508
Record Type:
administrative
Abergavenny (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 003 01 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at confluence of the Gavenny and Usk rivers; was important early strategic center on route between Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons; fortified by Romans and Normans; attacked many times during the 11th-17th centuries.
Names:
Abergavenny
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Abergonium
(
H
,
O
)
Gobanneum
(
H
,
O
)
Gobannium
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wales
(country) (
P
)
................
County of Monmouthshire
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Abergavenny
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Britannia
(province) (
P
)
............
Abergavenny
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was important ancient center
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Abergavenny..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.......................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.......................
Nagel's: Great Britain & Ireland (1974)
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
Abergonium..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
2
Gobanneum..........
[
VP
]
....................
Romano-British Placenames [online] (1999)
accessed 16 August 2004
Gobannium..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 2
....................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
358
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 2
..................
Nagel's: Great Britain & Ireland (1974)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2587774
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
2
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
358
..................
Romano-British Placenames [online] (1999)
accessed 16 August 2004
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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