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ID: 7008517
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008517
Record Type:
administrative
Brecon (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 003 23 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Was one of the 4 most important cities in 16th-cen. Wales; a chancery & exchequer were established at the castle in 1542 by Henry VIII.
Names:
Brecon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Brecknock
(
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Aberhonddw
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wales
(country) (
P
)
................
Powys
(county) (
P
)
....................
Brecon
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
site of Norman castle built in 1092
town (
C
)
noble seat (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Aberhonddw..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 120
Brecknock..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Brecon..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Buildings of Wales: Powys (1979)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Buildings of Wales: Powys (1979)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 120
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2590777
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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