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ID: 7018630
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018630
Record Type:
administrative
Colombey-les-deux-Églises (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 13 23 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.2229
decimal degrees
Long: 004 53 10 E
degrees minutes
Long: 4.8860
decimal degrees
Note:
Noted as battlefield in Franco-Prussian War, where Prussians under Karl von Steinmetz forced French under Achille Bazaine to retreat over the Moselle river on August 15, 1870; battle is also known by name of nearby village, Battle of Borny.
Names:
Colombey-les-deux-Églises
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Colombey-Nouilly
(
C
,
V
)
Colombey
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Grand Est
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Colombey-les-deux-Églises
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Colombey..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 194
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Colombey-les-deux-Églises..........
[
VP Preferred
]
............................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Colombey-Nouilly..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 194
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 194
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1421084
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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