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ID: 7008258
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008258
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Brest (inhabited place)  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:
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 Brest (inhabited place)  ................  Brest (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 Brest (inhabited place)  ............  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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