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ID: 7009490
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009490
Record Type:
administrative
Tarbes (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 14 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.2333
decimal degrees
Long: 000 05 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
The town was occupied by Romans. It was seized for a time by the Saracens (Arabs). In the 10th century it became the capital of the ancient countship of Bigorre, and it was captured by the English during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). It suffered greatly in the Wars of Religion in the late 16th century. It was the scene of an English victory over the French 1814. It is noted as the birthplace of the poet Théophile Gautier and Marshall Ferdinand Foch.
Names:
Tarbes
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bigorra
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Occitanie
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Tarbes
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Occitanie
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Bigorre
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
....................
Tarbes
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a pre-Roman settlement
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
provincial capital (
H
)
............
of Bigorre, 10th century
Sources and Contributors:
Bigorra..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1188
Tarbes..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 915-916
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 560
.................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
194
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
2; 915-916; II, 915-916
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
11; 560; XI, 560
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1472095
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
194
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1188
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
2/915 ff.
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 2 July 2002
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