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ID: 7008468
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008468
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Arras (inhabited place)  Arras (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 17 30 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.2918  decimal degrees
Long: 002 46 49 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.7803  decimal degrees

Note: Chief town of the Gallic Atrebates; damaged by Attila in 451 and by Northmen in 800; ruled by Flanders; medieval center for tapestry manufacture; ceded to Maximilian of Austria in 1493; held by Spanish Hapsburgs 1640; taken by Louis XIII of France 1640; Arras was the birthplace of Robespierre; the French Revolution and both world wars destroyed many of its old buildings.

Names:
Arras (preferred,C,V)
Franchise (H,V)  ............ named by Louis XI, 1482
Nemetacum (H,V)  ............ ancient
Nemetocenna (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Arras (inhabited place)  ................  Arras (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 Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Artois (historical region)  ................  Artois (historical region) (P)
Hierarchy of Arras (inhabited place)  ....................  Arras (inhabited place)
 
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Flanders (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Flanders (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Arras (inhabited place)  ............  Arras (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was ancient center
city (C)
department capital (C)
administrative center (C)
trade center (C)
industrial center (C)
episcopal see (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Arras..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 586
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 16
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Franchise..........  [VP]
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 79
Nemetacum..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 28 October 2004
Nemetocenna..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 28 October 2004
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 351
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 586
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 28 October 2004
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1408524
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 16
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 351
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 79
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 28 October 2004

 

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