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Angoulême (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 45 39 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 45.6500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 000 09 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 0.1500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Captured from Visigoths by Clovis, King of Franks 507; fought over by the French and English in the Hundred Years' War; ceded to England in 1360; restored to France in 1373; passed to the house of Orléans in 1394; united to crown in 1714; site of cathedral of Saint-Pierre. |
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| Angoulême (preferred,C,V)
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| Angouleme (C,V)
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| Civitas Ecolisnensium (H,V)
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| Ecolisna (H,V)
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| Iculisma (H,V)
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Gaul (historical region) (P) |
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Angoulême (inhabited place) |
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Gaul (historical region) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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originally settled by Gallic Santones & Pictones tribes; later part of the Carolingian kingdom of Aquitaine |
| city (C) |
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| department capital (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| countship (C) |
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since 9th cen. |
| capital (H) |
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of pre-Revolutionary province of Angoumois |
| duchy (H) |
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1515-1844, created by Francis I |
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