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ID: 7009303
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009303
Record Type:
administrative
Longwy (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 49 31 10 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 49.5194
decimal degrees
Long: 005 46 08 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.7688
decimal degrees
Note:
Formerly part of Duchy of Bar; annexed by France 1678; its 17th-cen. fortifications were designed by Vauban; assaulted by Prussians 1792 & 1815, by Germans 1870 & 1914; recaptured by US forces 1918; center of heavy industry & iron mining.
Names:
Longwy
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Grand Est
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Longwy
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Longwy..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 471
.................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
115
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
685
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 471
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1447770
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
115
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
685
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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