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ID: 7009406
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009406
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Niort (inhabited place)  Niort (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 46 19 26 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 46.3239  decimal degrees
Long: 000 27 41 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.4613  decimal degrees

Note: Developed around castle built by Henry Plantagenet 1155; taken by Louis VIII 1224; ruled by England 1360-1373; Protestant stronghold 16th cen.; suffered through Revocation of Edict of Nantes 1685; site of 15th-cen. Gothic-Renaissance church.

Names:
Niort (preferred,C,V)
Novioritum (H,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 Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region (administrative division))  ............  Nouvelle-Aquitaine (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Niort (inhabited place)  ................  Niort (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
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)
Hierarchy of Niort (inhabited place)  ................  Niort (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a Gallo-Roman town
city (C)
department capital (C)
commune (administrative) (C)
commercial center (C)
market center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Niort..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 721
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 140
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 851
Novioritum..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 665
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 665
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 721
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1455076
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 140
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 851
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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