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ID: 7009176
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009176
Record Type:
administrative
Fécamp (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 45 24 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.7567
decimal degrees
Long: 000 22 22 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.3729
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on English Channel; was a Roman center; convent was founded in 658, but destroyed by Norsemen; Abbey of the Trinity was founded on the site in 1003; was major port until 17th cen. when Le Havre superseded it.
Names:
Fécamp
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Sècamp
(
C
,
V
)
Fiscamnum
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Normandie
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Fécamp
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Normandy
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
................
Fécamp
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established in Roman times
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
famed for Benedictine liqueur, invented by the monks of the abbey in the 16th century
monastic center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fécamp..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
Fiscamnum..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 291
Sècamp..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
1; 291; I, 291
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1426568
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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