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ID: 7008447
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008447
Record Type:
administrative
Albi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 55 38 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.9272
decimal degrees
Long: 002 08 57 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.1493
decimal degrees
Note:
An active center of Catharism; captured in 1215, causing bishops to lose their estates to the crown; temporal power was granted to bishops 1264 until French Revolution; Gothic Sainte-Cécile cathedral is town's chief architectural glory.
Names:
Albi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Albia
(
H
,
O
)
Albiga
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Albigensis urbs
(
H
,
O
)
Albimontium
(
H
,
O
)
Blancoburgum
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Occitanie
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Albi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was capital of a Gallo-Roman civitas that belonged to the province of Aquitania
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Romano-Gallic Albigenses & of medieval viscounty of Albigeois
Sources and Contributors:
Albi..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 220
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
33
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
9
...........
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Albia..........
[
VP
]
..............
Orbis Latinus (1971)
11
Albiga..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
26
Albigensis urbs..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
11
Albimontium..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
11
Blancoburgum..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
11
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 220
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1407034
..................
Orbis Latinus (1971)
11
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
33
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
9
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
26
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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