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ID: 7008019
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008019
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Argenteuil (inhabited place)  Argenteuil (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 56 22 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.9394  decimal degrees
Long: 002 14 12 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.2367  decimal degrees

Note: Silver deposits here were exploited by Gauls; town was destroyed by Normans, but rebuilt; convent here was endowed by Charlemagne; was famous in the 12th century for abbess Héloïse, of the tragic Héloïse-Abelard romance; currently a residential area.

Names:
Argenteuil (preferred,C,V)  ............ name refers to silver ("argent") deposits in the area
Argenteuil-sur-Seine (C,V)
Argentolum ad Sequanam (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
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 (region (administrative division))  ............  Île-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Argenteuil (inhabited place)  ................  Argenteuil (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  area was known to Gauls; town later grew up around 7th-cen. convent (now a Benedictine abbey)
city (C)
industrial center (C)  ............  for metallurgical & chemical industries
monastic center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Argenteuil..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 542
.......................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 69
Argenteuil-sur-Seine..........  [VP]
...................................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 27
Argentolum ad Sequanam..........  [VP]
.........................................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 27
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 542
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1408263
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 27
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 69
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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