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ID: 7010562
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010562
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Saint-Quentin (inhabited place)  Saint-Quentin (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 50 57 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.8492  decimal degrees
Long: 003 17 17 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.2881  decimal degrees

Note: Important wool industry center in Middle Ages; to French crown 1191; ceded to Burgundians 1435-1477; site of Spanish victory over French 1557; scene of decisive British breakthrough in World War I; site of 12th and 15th-century church and 14th and16th-century city hall.

Names:
Saint-Quentin (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Saint Quentin (C,V)
St. Quentin (C,V)
Augusta Veromanduorum (H,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 Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Hauts-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint-Quentin (inhabited place)  ................  Saint-Quentin (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 Picardie (former nation/state/empire)  ............  Picardie (former nation/state/empire) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint-Quentin (inhabited place)  ................  Saint-Quentin (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
industrial center (C)
pilgrimage center (H)  ............  during Middle Ages
battlefield (H)  ............  of major battle in Franco-Prussian War, 1871

Sources and Contributors:
Augusta Veromanduorum..........  [VP]
......................................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Saint Quentin..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 333
..........................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..........................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992) 989
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 171
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1054
Saint-Quentin..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
St. Quentin..........  [GRLPSC]
.......................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 333
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1992) 989
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1468170
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 171
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1054
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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