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ID: 7008992
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008992
Record Type:
administrative
Briançon (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 54 02 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.9005
decimal degrees
Long: 006 38 17 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.6381
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of a Roman station; sacked by Sardinians in 1692; refortified by Sébastien de Vauban in the 17th cen.; withstood a 3-month Allied siege in 1815; sustained heavy damage during WW II.
Names:
Briançon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Brigantio
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Briançon
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since ancient Roman times
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
fortified settlement (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Briançon..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
Brigantio..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 122
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 122
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1415195
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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