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ID: 7018653
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018653
Record Type:
administrative
Fleury (historic site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 11 44 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.1950
decimal degrees
Long: 005 26 07 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.4350
decimal degrees
Note:
Former inhabited place, located near the present-day memorial for the Battle of Verdun. The town was one of the defenses of Verdun in World War I; bloodiest battle of the war was fought here in 1916.
Names:
Fleury
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fleury-devant-Douaumont
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Europe
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France
(nation) (
P
)
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Grand Est
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Fleury
(historic site) (
P
)
Place Types:
historic site (
preferred
,
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
town (
H
)
commune (administrative) (
H
)
battlefield (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fleury..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 295
Fleury-devant-Douaumont..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
400
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 295
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
400
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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