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ID: 7009184
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009184
Record Type:
administrative
Forbach (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 11 08 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.1856
decimal degrees
Long: 006 53 29 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.8914
decimal degrees
Note:
Scene of battle in which French General Frossard was defeated by Prussians 1870; has important cokery & manufactures mining equipment; has remains nearby of medieval castle of counts of Forbach crown; noted for paper production & coal mines.
Names:
Forbach
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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France
(nation) (
P
)
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Grand Est
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Forbach
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was medieval center
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Forbach..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 873
.................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
67
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
404
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 873
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1427558
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
67
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
404
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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