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ID: 7008773 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008773			Record Type: administrative

Nice (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 42 49 N degrees minutes			Lat: 43.7136 decimal degrees
Long: 007 15 34 E degrees minutes			Long: 7.2595 decimal degrees

Note: Conquered by Romans 1st century CE; ruled by Saracens 10th cen.; under counts of Savoy 1388-1860, although captured and held by French several times; pillaged by Turks 1543; ceded to France 1860; birthplace of Garibaldi; leading resort city of French Riviera.

Names:

Nice (preferred,C,V,English-P)
Nizza (C,O)
ניס (C,U,Hebrew )
Nicaea (H,O)	............	ancient
Nicea Liguriae (H,O)
Nikaia (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

....

Europe (continent) (P)

........

France (nation) (P)

............

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (region (administrative division)) (P)

................

Nice (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded by Phocaeans from ancient Massilia (Marseille), 350 BC
city (C)
department capital (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)	............	since ancient Roman times, 1st cen. AD
tourist center (C)
resort (C)

Related geographic places:

near/adjacent to ....	Cimiez .......... (inhabited place)
..............................	(World, Europe, France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) [5001068]

Sources and Contributors:

ניס..........	[IMJ]
...........	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Nicaea..........	[FDA]
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Nice..........	[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........	Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
...........	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 7:677
...........	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
...........	Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
...........	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 139
...........	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
...........	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 846

Nicea Liguriae..........	[VP]
.............................	ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)

Nikaia..........	[VP]
.................	ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)

Nizza..........	[FDA, GRLPSC]
..............	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Subject: .....	[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, IMJ, VP]
..................	ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 677; 7:677
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1454990
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 139
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 846


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

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