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ID: 7008517
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008517
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brecon (inhabited place)  Brecon (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 57 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.9500  decimal degrees
Long: 003 23 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Was one of the 4 most important cities in 16th-cen. Wales; a chancery & exchequer were established at the castle in 1542 by Henry VIII.

Names:
Brecon (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Brecknock (C,V,English,U)
Aberhonddw (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Wales (country)  ............  Wales (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Powys (county)  ................  Powys (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Brecon (inhabited place)  ....................  Brecon (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site of Norman castle built in 1092
town (C)
noble seat (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Aberhonddw..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 120
Brecknock..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Brecon..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................  Buildings of Wales: Powys (1979)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Buildings of Wales: Powys (1979)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 120
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2590777
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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