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ID: 7009264
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009264
Record Type:
administrative
La Rochelle (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 001 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Bay of Biscay, SW of Tours; industries include aircraft, automobile & chemical manufacture; chief Huguenot stronghold 16th cen.; besieged by Richelieu & forced to capitulate through famine 1627-1628.
Names:
La Rochelle
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Rochelle, La
(
C
,
V
)
Rupella
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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France
(nation) (
P
)
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
La Rochelle
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since ancient Roman times
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
............
since 1199
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of ancient Aunis
Sources and Contributors:
La Rochelle..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
109
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Rochelle, La..........
[
BHA
]
.......................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Rupella..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
651
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1438604
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
109
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
651
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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