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ID: 7017225
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017225
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Carnac (inhabited place)  Carnac (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 35 01 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.5835  decimal degrees
Long: 003 04 44 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.0788  decimal degrees

Note: Village on Quiberon Bay; site of thousands of megalithic monuments from the Neolithic Age (ca. 1800 BC); the most important are menhirs or standing stones (the so-called Alignements de Carnac), which may have served a religious or astronomical purpose.

Names:
Carnac (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Brittany (region (administrative division))  ............  Brittany (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Carnac (inhabited place)  ................  Carnac (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  inhabited since Neolithic times
village (C)
commune (administrative) (C)
prehistoric site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Carnac..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 157
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 877
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 40
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 157
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 877
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1416767
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 40
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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