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ID: 7008350
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008350
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Troyes (inhabited place)  Troyes (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 18 03 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.3007  decimal degrees
Long: 004 05 07 E  degrees minutes   Long: 4.0852  decimal degrees

Note: Converted to Christianity 3rd cen.; sacked by Normans 889; site of the great Champagne fairs; gave name to measuring system first used at fairs (troy weights); scene of signing of Treaty of Troyes 1420; scene where Joan of Arc expelled English 1429.

Names:
Troyes (preferred,C,V)
Augustobona (H,V)  ............ ancient
Augustobona Tricassium (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of France (nation)  ........  France (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Grand Est (region (administrative division))  ............  Grand Est (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Troyes (inhabited place)  ................  Troyes (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 Grand Est (region (administrative division))  ............  Grand Est (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Champagne-Ardenne (historical region)  ................  Champagne-Ardenne (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Troyes (inhabited place)  ....................  Troyes (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled in pre-Roman times
city (C)
department capital (C)
industrial center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Champagne, 1019
commercial center (H)  ............  prospered from 11th-13th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Augustobona..........  [VP]
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5807
Augustobona Tricassium..........  [GRLPSC]
.........................................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Troyes..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 949
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 201
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1230-1231
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 949
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5807
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1473937
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 201
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1230-1231
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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