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ID: 7009307
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009307
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Lorient (inhabited place)  Lorient (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 003 22 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.3667  decimal degrees

Note: Prospered & enlarged when a second major trading company settled here 1719; commerce declined when France lost its Indian possessions; port purchased by Louis XVI who established a royal arsenal; almost entirely destroyed 1944; rebuilt after World War II.

Names:
Lorient (preferred,C,V)
L'Orient (H,V)  ............ named by Louis XIV in reference to Eastern countries with which it traded, 1664

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 Lorient (inhabited place)  ................  Lorient (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 Lorient (inhabited place)  ............  Lorient (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by French East India Company, authorized by Louis XIV in 1664
town (C)
commune (administrative) (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)  ............  since 1719
military center (C)
fort (H)  ............  1690

Sources and Contributors:
Lorient..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 115
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 687
L'Orient..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 482
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 482
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1447831
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 115
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 687
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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