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ID: 7017416
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017416
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)  Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 09 29 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.1580  decimal degrees
Long: 001 32 06 E  degrees minutes   Long: 1.5350  decimal degrees

Note: Rock caves show evidence of prehistoric culture leaving great stone monuments; has monastery founded by St. Anthony of Padua 1226; site of Romanesque church of Saint-Martin, an example of 12th-century Limousin art; agrarian and industrial economy prevail.

Names:
Brive-la-Gaillarde (preferred,C,V)
Brive (C,V)
Briva Curretia (H,V)  ............ ancient Roman
Briva Curretiae (H,V)  ............ ancient Roman
Brivas (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region (administrative division))  ............  Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)  ................  Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Gaul (historical region)  ........  Gaul (historical region) (P)
Hierarchy of Gallia Aquitania (province)  ............  Gallia Aquitania (province) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)  ................  Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Gaul (historical region)  ........  Gaul (historical region) (P)
Hierarchy of Gallia Aquitania (province)  ............  Gallia Aquitania (province) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Aquitania Prima (province)  ................  Aquitania Prima (province) (P,H) from the 4th century CE
Hierarchy of Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)  ....................  Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Limousin (historical region)  ........  Limousin (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place)  ............  Brive-la-Gaillarde (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site of prehistoric settlement
town (C)
commune (administrative) (C)
agricultural center (C)
industrial center (C)
market center (C)
monastic center (C)  ............  was first established as an early Celtic monastery
religious center (H)
capital (H)  ............  of lower Limousin during the Middle Ages

Sources and Contributors:
Briva Curretia..........  [VP]
.............................  Mathisen, Geography of Roman Gaul [online] (1996) accessed 24 November 2004
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 180
Briva Curretiae..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 535
Brivas..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 93
Brive..........  [VP]
..............  Guide Bleu: France (1959) 467
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 180
Brive-la-Gaillarde..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...................................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
...................................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 34
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 2; 535; II, 535
..................  Guide Bleu: France (1959) 467
..................  Mathisen, Geography of Roman Gaul [online] (1996) accessed 24 November 2004
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1415363
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 34
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 93
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 180
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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