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ID: 4001768
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4001768
Record Type:
administrative
Bowness-on-Solway (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 003 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Terminal fort of Hadrian's Wall in the west; remains of the gate and an external bath house have been found.
Names:
Bowness-on-Solway
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Bowness
(
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Maia
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cumbria
(county) (
P
)
....................
Bowness-on-Solway
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Britannia
(province) (
P
)
............
Bowness-on-Solway
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient site
town (
C
)
fortification (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bowness..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/09/2001
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Bowness-on-Solway..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
................................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
................................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987)
93
................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Maia..........
[
VP
]
...........
Perseus Digital Library (2000-)
accessed 03/09/2001
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 9 March 2001; accessed 03/09/2001
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987)
93
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2590544
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Perseus Digital Library (2000-)
accessed 03/09/2001
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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