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ID: 7008490
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008490
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Laval (inhabited place)  Laval (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 04 24 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.0732  decimal degrees
Long: 000 45 48 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.7634  decimal degrees

Note: Grew around 10th-century castle built by Lord Guy II; its lords and counts played prominent role in French history; scene where Vendeans defeated Republicans in 1793; in center of agricultural region; has 15th-century gate and 16th-century castle housing law courts.

Names:
Laval (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 Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division))  ............  Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Laval (inhabited place)  ................  Laval (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 Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division))  ............  Pays de la Loire (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Anjou (historical region)  ................  Anjou (historical region) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Laval (inhabited place)  ....................  Laval (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded before 9th cen. AD
town (C)
department capital (C)
agricultural center (C)
mining center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Laval..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 197
..............  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..............  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 110
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 655
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 197
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1439527
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 110
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 655
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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