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ID: 7012558
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7012558
Record Type:
administrative
Bourg-en-Bresse (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 12 16 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.2045
decimal degrees
Long: 005 13 40 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.2279
decimal degrees
Note:
The main center for Bresse-Dombes lowlands; made chief city of Bresse by dukes of Savoy early 15th cen.; has 16th-cen. Gothic Notre-Dame church & museum of antiquities; economy depends on light manufacturing, farm trade & tourism.
Names:
Bourg-en-Bresse
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bourg
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Bourg-en-Bresse
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
............
since 11th cen.
trade center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bourg..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
166
Bourg-en-Bresse..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 428
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
32
.............................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.............................
Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 428
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1414325
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
32
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
166
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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