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ID: 7009194
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7009194
Record Type:
administrative
Gap (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 44 33 41 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 44.5615
decimal degrees
Long: 006 04 52 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.0811
decimal degrees
Note:
Was an ancient center; was capital of medieval Gapençais; annexed by French crown in 1512; sacked by Huguenots in 1567 & 1577 during French Wars of Religion; noted for 17th-cen. cathedral & carved tomb by Jacob Richier (from 1613).
Names:
Gap
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Vapincum
(
C
,
V
)
............
ancient name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
France
(nation) (
P
)
............
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Gap
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Emperor Augustus in 14 BC
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Gap..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
70
Vapincum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 323
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 323
..................
Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1428666
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
70
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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