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ID: 7012122
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012122
Record Type:
administrative
Armagh (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 21 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 006 40 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -6.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Town became important 4th cen., after decline of fort Emain Mhacha, center of Ulster kingdom; church established by St. Patrick 5th cen.; captured by English Protestant forces in 16th cen.; industries include textiles, chemicals & foodstuffs.
Names:
Armagh
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Ard Mhacha
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon
(local council) (
P
)
................
Armagh
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a religious center by St. Patrick ca. 450
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
archiepiscopal see (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ard Mhacha..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 563
Armagh..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 563
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
15
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 563
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2588529
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
15
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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