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ID: 7009485
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009485
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roubaix (inhabited place)  Roubaix (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 41 39 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.6942  decimal degrees
Long: 003 10 28 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.1746  decimal degrees

Note: Chief center of French textile industry since 19th cen.; struggled in 2nd half of 18th cen. to obtain same privileges as Lille to manufacture all textiles made by English; occupied by Germans in World I & II; one of chief manufacturing centers of France.

Names:
Roubaix (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Roubaix (inhabited place)  ................  Roubaix (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)  ............  chartered 1469
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Roubaix..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 205
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 167
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1033
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 205
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1462778
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 167
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1033
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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