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ID: 7009406
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009406
Record Type:
administrative
Niort (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 19 26 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.3239
decimal degrees
Long: 000 27 41 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.4613
decimal degrees
Note:
Developed around castle built by Henry Plantagenet 1155; taken by Louis VIII 1224; ruled by England 1360-1373; Protestant stronghold 16th cen.; suffered through Revocation of Edict of Nantes 1685; site of 15th-cen. Gothic-Renaissance church.
Names:
Niort
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Novioritum
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Niort
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Poitou
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
................
Niort
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a Gallo-Roman town
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Niort..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 721
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
140
..............
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
851
Novioritum..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 665
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 665
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 721
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1455076
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
140
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
851
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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