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ID: 7008009
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008009
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Melun (inhabited place)  Melun (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 48 32 45 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 48.5457  decimal degrees
Long: 002 39 13 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.6536  decimal degrees

Note: Conquered by the Romans in 53 BCE; taken by the Normans; was favorite residence of kings of France in the Middle Ages; taken by the English in 1420, retaken by Joan of Arc in 1430; noted as site of 11th-century Romanesque church and 17th-century château of Vaux-le-Vicomte.

Names:
Melun (preferred,C,V)
Melodunum (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 Île-de-France (region (administrative division))  ............  Île-de-France (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Melun (inhabited place)  ................  Melun (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 Île-de-France (historical region)  ............  Île-de-France (historical region) (P)
Hierarchy of Melun (inhabited place)  ................  Melun (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  inhabited since ancient times
city (C)
department capital (C)
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Melodunum..........  [VP]
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 749
Melun..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 7; 1035
..............  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 126
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 1035; 7; 1035
..................  Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1450767
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 126
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 749
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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