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ID: 7008494
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008494
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Le Mans (inhabited place)  Le Mans (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 00 01 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.0004  decimal degrees
Long: 000 12 17 E  degrees minutes   Long: 0.2047  decimal degrees

Note: Fortified by Romans; evangelized by St. Julien in the 3rd century; invaded by English in Hundred Years' War; taken over by Royalists and Republicans during the Revolution; site of St. Julien cathedral, built 11th-15th centuries; scene of Prussian defeat of French in 1870.

Names:
Le Mans (preferred,C,V,display)
Mans, Le (C,V,index)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division))  ............  Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Le Mans (inhabited place)  ................  Le Mans (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division))  ............  Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Anjou (historical region)  ................  Anjou (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Le Mans (inhabited place)  ....................  Le Mans (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since ancient Roman times
city (C)
department capital (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
trade center (C)
diocese (C)  ............  established 3rd cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Le Mans..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 111
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 660
Mans, Le..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 788
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 7; 788; VII, 788
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1441792
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 111
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 660
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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