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ID: 7008258
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008258
Record Type:
administrative
Brest (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 48 23 27 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 48.3908
decimal degrees
Long: 004 29 10 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.4862
decimal degrees
Note:
Ceded by Count Hervé V of Léon to John I, duke of Brittany 1240; occupied by English 1342-1397; passed to French crown 1491; made a major naval base by Richelieu 1631 and later fortified by Vauban; debarkation point for US in World War I.
Names:
Brest
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Brittany
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Brest
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brittany
(historical region) (
P,
H
)
............
Brest
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
military center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Brest..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
2:502
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
175
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 502; 2:502
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1415036
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
175
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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