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ID: 7008272
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008272
Record Type:
administrative
Amboise (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 47 24 45 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 47.4125
decimal degrees
Long: 000 58 58 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.9827
decimal degrees
Note:
Was lordship inder counts of Anjou in 11th cen.; united to royal domain 1431; castle became a royal residence, later a state prison; chapel is said to be burial place of Leonardo da Vinci.
Names:
Amboise
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ambacia
(
H
,
V
)
Ambasia
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Centre-Val de Loire
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Amboise
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Centre-Val de Loire
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Touraine
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
....................
Amboise
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
lordship (
H
)
royal residence (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ambacia..........
[
VP
]
.................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
17
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
43
Ambasia..........
[
VP
]
.................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
17
Amboise..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
12
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1407398
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
17
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
12
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
43
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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