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ID: 7010570
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010570
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Beauvais (inhabited place)  Beauvais (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 49 26 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 49.4333  decimal degrees
Long: 002 05 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.0833  decimal degrees

Note: A manufacturing commune; its Saint-Pierre cathedral is one of largest in Europe; has churches dating from 10th, 12th & 13th cen.; has ancient Roman ramparts; former site of Beauvais tapestry factory producing exceptional tapestries in 17th & 18th cen.

Names:
Beauvais (preferred,C,V)
Bellovacum (H,O)  ............ ancient
Caesaromagus (H,O)
Civitas de Bellovacis (H,O)

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 Beauvais (inhabited place)  ................  Beauvais (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled during Roman Empire
town (C)
department capital (C)
commune (administrative) (C)  ............  since 1096
industrial center (C)
countship (H)  ............  during 9th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Beauvais..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
Bellovacum..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 127
Caesaromagus..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 127
Civitas de Bellovacis..........  [VP]
......................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 24
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 24
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1411313
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 127
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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