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ID: 7002891
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002891
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Poitou (historical region)  Poitou (historical region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 40 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 000 30 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Inhabited by Gallic Pictones or Pictavi; conquered by Romans & incorporated into Aquitaine; frequently disputed between French & British; made province by Charles VII, now divided into 3 departments; site of peasant antirevolutionary rebellions 1793-1796.

Names:
Poitou (preferred,C,V)
Haut-Poitou (C,V)
Le Poitou (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Poitou (historical region)  ............  Poitou (historical region) (P,H)

Place Types:
historical region (preferred, C)
province (H)  ............  1416-French Revolution
general region (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Haut-Poitou..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Le Poitou..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Poitou..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 743
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 963
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 743
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1458951
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 963
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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