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Île-de-France (historical region) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 49 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 49.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 20 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 2.3330 decimal degrees |
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Note: In the Middle Ages, meant a large area with Paris as the center; in the 15th century it was a wide military province, bounded to the north by Picardy, to the west by Normandy, to the south by Orléanais and Nivernais, and to the east by Champagne; see also modern region of Île-de-France and historic Francia. |
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| Île-de-France (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name documented in 1429, perhaps in use as early as 1387; from the medieval word "île" meaning an area bounded by rivers |
| Ile-de-France (C,V)
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| Isle-de-France (C,V)
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| Région Parisienne (C,V)
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| Isle of France (C,V)
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| L'Île-de-France (C,V)
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| historical region (preferred, C) |
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| province (H) |
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| general region (C) |
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