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ID: 7008209
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008209
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Caen (inhabited place)  Caen (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 11 50 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.1972  decimal degrees
Long: 000 19 37 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.3268  decimal degrees

Note: Important under the Norman dukes of the 10th and 11th centuries; captured by the English in 1346 and 1417-1450; prosperity was broken by revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685 and city became Protestant; center for Girondist movement during Revolution; largely destroyed in World War II.

Names:
Caen (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 Normandie (region (administrative division))  ............  Normandie (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Caen (inhabited place)  ................  Caen (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Normandy (historical region)  ............  Normandy (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Caen (inhabited place)  ................  Caen (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
department capital (C)
port (C)  ............  since the 19th century
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
trade center (C)
educational center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of lower Normandy during time of William the Conqueror
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Caen..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 716-717
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 37
...........  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 199
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 2; 716-717; II, 716-717
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1416098
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 37
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 199
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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