Normandy
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- Names
Normandie
Normandy
Normandía
- Place Type
- historical region
- Description
- Part of Lugdunensis under Romans; invaded by Northmen mid-9th century; given to conquerors under Rollo by Charles III in 911; united with English kingdom in 1066; conquered by French in 1204, by English in 1417 and by the French again in 1450; scene of World War II "Battle of Normandy" in 1944.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1990); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Died
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