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ID: 7010563
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010563
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Soissons (inhabited place)  Soissons (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 22 51 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.3808  decimal degrees
Long: 003 19 38 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.3271  decimal degrees

Note: Name derived from Suessiones, a Gaulish tribe; garrison town under Romans; seized by Clovis in 486; scene of Merovingian king Childeric III's deposition in 752; held by counts of Soissons under Capetian dynasty 987-1328; site of 12th- and 13th-century Gothic cathedral.

Names:
Soissons (preferred,C,V)
Augusta Suessionum (H,V)  ............ ancient
Noviodunum (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 Soissons (inhabited place)  ................  Soissons (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 Île-de-France (historical region)  ............  Île-de-France (historical region) (P)
Hierarchy of Soissons (inhabited place)  ................  Soissons (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since ancient Roman times
city (C)
industrial center (C)
market center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Suessiones tribe, 3rd century; of kings of Neustria, 5th-8th centuries
episcopal see (H)  ............  established 3rd century

Sources and Contributors:
Augusta Suessionum..........  [VP]
...................................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12724
...................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1128
Noviodunum..........  [GRLPSC]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Soissons..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 10, 938
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 186
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1128
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 938; 10, 938
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12724
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1471090
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 186
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1128
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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