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ID: 7008262
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008262
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Quimper (inhabited place)  Quimper (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 004 06 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -4.1000  decimal degrees

Note: Inhabited by Britons from Cornwall fleeing the Anglo-Saxons during Middle Ages; joined duchy of Brittany 11th cen.; suffered in local wars of succession; was sacked by Charles de Blois; site of 13th/16th-cen. Gothic cathedral; known for pottery & faience.

Names:
Quimper (preferred,C,V)
Kemper (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Brittany (region (administrative division))  ............  Brittany (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Quimper (inhabited place)  ................  Quimper (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Brittany (historical region)  ........  Brittany (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Quimper (inhabited place)  ............  Quimper (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was important medieval center
town (C)
department capital (C)
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)
tourist center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of countship of Cornouaille, 5th-11th cen.
episcopal see (H)  ............  established 495

Sources and Contributors:
Kemper..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-85
Quimper..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 768
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 860
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 161
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 997
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 768
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 860
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1460750
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-85
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 161
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 997
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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