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ID: 7009682 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009682			Record Type: administrative

Sète (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 24 23 N degrees minutes			Lat: 43.4063 decimal degrees
Long: 003 41 35 E degrees minutes			Long: 3.6930 decimal degrees

Note: A primary French Mediterranean commercial port, located southwest of Montpellier. It occupies the lower slopes and foot of the isolated Mont Saint-Clair, which lies on a tongue of land between the Mediterranean and the large marshy Thau Lagoon. The port was begun in the 17th century, and damaged in World War II.

Names:

Sète (preferred,C,V)
Cette (C,V)	............	until 1827

Hierarchical Position:

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France (nation) (P)

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Occitanie (region (administrative division)) (P)

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Sète (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
seaport (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Cette..........	[VP]
..............	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Accessed 07/02/2002.
..............	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)

Sète..........	[BHA, VP Preferred]
...........	Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
...........	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 180

Subject: .....	[BHA, VP]
..................	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Accessed 07/02/2002.
..................	Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1470743
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 180


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Accessed 07/02/2002.

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