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ID: 7009331
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009331
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Maubeuge (inhabited place)  Maubeuge (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 16 43 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.2785  decimal degrees
Long: 003 58 28 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.9744  decimal degrees

Note: Grew around monastery of Sainte-Aldegonde built in 7th cen.; formerly part of medieval county of Hainaut & later of Spanish Netherlands; ceded to France by Peace of Nijmegen 1678; has 17th-cen. fortifications; manufactures firearms, iron & steel goods.

Names:
Maubeuge (preferred,C,V)
Malbodium (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 Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Maubeuge (inhabited place)  ................  Maubeuge (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Malbodium..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 949
Maubeuge..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 124
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 742
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 949
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1450266
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 124
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 742
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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