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ID: 7017543
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017543
Record Type:
administrative
Baton Rouge (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 30 27 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 30.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 091 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -91.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in SE Louisiana; French ceded area to Britain in 1763 after French & Amerindian wars; occupied by Spain during American Revolution; purchased by USA in 1815; Union forces took city in May 1862; politician Huey Long kept offices here.
Names:
Baton Rouge
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Louisiana
(state) (
P
)
................
East Baton Rouge
(parish (political)) (
P
)
....................
Baton Rouge
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a fort built by French in 1719
city (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
houses Louisiana State University, Agricultural & Mechanical College & Southern University
industrial center (
C
)
............
includes gas, many oil fields & Standard Oil Company's giant oil refinery
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1849
transportation center (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
............
May 1862
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Louisiana
.......... (state)
..................
(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007256]
Sources and Contributors:
Baton Rouge..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 83
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 961-962
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
233
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22018638
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
124
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 83
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 961-962
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
233
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS22018638
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
124
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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