Monaco
Details
- Names
Monaco
Múnegu
Principauté de Monaco
Principatu de Múnegu
Principality of Monaco
Mónaco
Principado de Mónaco
Mônaco
MCO
MC
ISO492
MN00
Monegasque
Monacan
Monaguesque
Monégasque
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- Small nation located on Mediterranean Riviera; area had Stone Age settlements; known to Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans; Genoese claimed it in 1191; Grimaldi family reign began in 1297 and continues today; generally has been allied with France; official language is French, though Italian is also spoken.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Britannica Book of the Year (1992); Britannica Book of the Year (1993); CIA, World Fact Book (1999); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); NIMA, GNS ADM1 Codes (1999); Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-)...
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