Amiens
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Amiens
- Place Type
- political
- Description
- One of leading representatives of Gothic architecture in Europe; site of famous Notre Dame cathedral; chief city of medieval county Ameénois; a Roman city Christianized in the 4th century; captured by many powers from the 16th to the 19th century; held by Germany 1914.
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- Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
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