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ID: 7008008
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008008
Record Type:
administrative
Meaux (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 57 49 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.9636
decimal degrees
Long: 002 52 57 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.8824
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in important agricultural region; has been an agricultural market center since medieval times; belonged to counts of Champagne 923-1361; was first diocese in France to shelter Reformers during Wars of Religion in late 16th cen.
Names:
Meaux
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Iatinum
(
H
,
V
)
............
Roman
Latinum
(
H
,
V
)
............
Roman name
Meldi
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Île-de-France
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Meaux
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was thriving medieval center
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
since medieval times
market center (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
since 375 AD
Sources and Contributors:
Iatinum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
402
Latinum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 993
Meaux..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
745
Meldi..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 993
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 993
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1450618
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
402
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
745
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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