Rouen
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- Names
Rouen
Rotomagus
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Former center of the Rotomagi; invaded by Normans in the 9th century; occupied by England 1418-1449; site of trial and execution of Joan of Arc in 1431; taken by Huguenots 1562; held by Germany 1870; site of famous 13th-century Gothic cathedral damaged in World War II.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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