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ID: 7017534
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017534
Record Type:
administrative
Lindisfarne (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 55 41 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 55.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 001 48 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.8000
decimal degrees
Note:
Monastery was established here by St. Aidan in 7th cen.; was first seat of Celtic Christianity in England; famous Lindisfarne Gospel manuscripts were produced here in 7th cen.; monastery was abandoned in 875, then re-founded in 1082.
Names:
Lindisfarne
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
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P
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
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England
(country) (
P
)
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Northumberland
(county) (
P
)
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Holy Island
(tidal island) (
P
)
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Lindisfarne
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
village grew up around the monastery
village (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
monastic center (
H
)
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from 635 until end of 16th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Lindisfarne..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 20
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 20
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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