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ID: 7008483
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008483
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Saint-Nazaire (inhabited place)  Saint-Nazaire (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 16 48 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.2799  decimal degrees
Long: 002 12 32 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.2088  decimal degrees

Note: Site where Romans built fleet 56 BC; major port of debarkation for US Expeditionary Force 1917-1918; German submarine base 1940-1944; scene of British commando raid destroying principal dock 1942; almost destroyed by Allied bombing 1944.

Names:
Saint-Nazaire (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Saint Nazaire (C,V)
Carbilo (H,O)  ............ 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 Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division))  ............  Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint-Nazaire (inhabited place)  ................  Saint-Nazaire (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
port (C)  ............  developed since mid-19th cen.
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Carbilo..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1052-1053
Saint Nazaire..........  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..........................  Blue Guide: France (1984)
..........................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 10:331
..........................  Guide Bleu: France (1983)
..........................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 171
..........................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Saint-Nazaire..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..................  Blue Guide: France (1984)
..................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 331; 10:331
..................  Guide Bleu: France (1983)
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1467543
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 171
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1052-1053
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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