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| Toulouse  FeatureType : null Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 43.6045 / 1.444 | Toulouse is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France, with 466,297 inhabitants as of January 2014 (...) |
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| Toulouse–Blagnac Airport FeatureType : airport Elevation : 154 Lat/Lng : 43.6291 / 1.3638 | Toulouse Blagnac Airport (French: Aéroport de Toulouse–Blagnac) is an international airport located west northwest of Toulouse, and partially in Blagnac, both communes of the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of France. In 2017, the airport served 9,264,611 passengers. . Toulouse (...) |
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| Dreux FeatureType : null Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 48.7372 / 1.3664 | Dreux is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. (...) |
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| Pauillac FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 45.1999 / -0.7488 | Pauillac is a municipality in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. (...) |
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| Rodez FeatureType : null Elevation : 642 Lat/Lng : 44.3506 / 2.575 | Rodez is a small city and commune in the South of France, about 150 km northeast of Toulouse. It is the prefecture of the department of Aveyron in the region of Occitanie. Rodez is the seat of the , of the First Constituency of Aveyron as well as of the general Council of Aveyron (...) |
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| Hamburg FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 53.583 / 9.983 | Hamburg (; ; ; officially: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg; ;)Constitution of Hamburg), is, with a population of 1.8 million people, the second-largest city of Germany after Berlin, the eighth-largest city in the European Union, as well as the union's largest city which is not one of its member (...) |
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| Carcassonne FeatureType : null Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 43.2131 / 2.352 | Carcassonne is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitanie. A prefecture, it has a population of about 50,000. Inhabited since the Neolithic period, Carcassonne is located in the Aude plain between historic trade routes, linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean sea (...) |
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| Narbonne FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 43.1836 / 3.0042 | Narbonne (; ; ; Late Latin:Narbona) is a commune in southern France in the Occitanie region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It is located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and was historically a prosperous port, but declined from the 14th (...) |
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| Sète FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 43.4053 / 3.6975 | Sète (; Seta in Occitan), known as Cette until 1928, is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Sétois. Known as the Venice of Languedoc and the singular island (in Paul Valéry's words), it is a port and a seaside resort on the (...) |
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| Tarbes FeatureType : null Elevation : 318 Lat/Lng : 43.2307 / 0.0726 | Tarbes is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. It is the capital of Bigorre. It has been a commune since 1790. It was known as Turba or Tarba in Roman times. Tarbes is part of the historical region of Gascony (...) |
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| Düsseldorf FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 51.2256 / 6.7828 | Düsseldorf (; Low Franconian and), often Dusseldorf in English sources, is the capital and, after Cologne, second most populous city of the most populous German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, as well as the seventh most populous city in Germany (...) |
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| Stade de France FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 48.9244 / 2.3602 | Stade de France is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. Its seating capacity of 80,698 makes it the eighth-largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is used by the France national football team and French rugby union team for international (...) |
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| Céret FeatureType : null Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 42.4892 / 2.7522 | Céret is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Catalan comarque of Vallespir. (...) |
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| Allianz FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 515 Lat/Lng : 48.1544 / 11.5888 | Allianz SE is a European financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. As of 2014, it is the world's largest insurance company, the largest financial services group and the largest company according to a composite measure by (...) |
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| Andorra FeatureType : country Elevation : 1595 Lat/Lng : 42.5583 / 1.5553 | Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of AndorraFunk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia, 1993 , is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France in the north and Spain in the south (...) |
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| Perpignan FeatureType : null Elevation : 44 Lat/Lng : 42.6986 / 2.8956 | Perpignan is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in Northern Catalonia, Southern France. Perpignan was the capital of the former province and County of Roussillon (Rosselló in Catalan) and continental capital of the Kingdom of Majorca in the 13th and 14th centuries (...) |
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| Saint-Nazaire FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 47.2806 / -2.2086 | Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany. The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire River estuary, near the Atlantic Ocean (...) |
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| France FeatureType : country Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to (...) |
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| Bordeaux FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 44.8379 / -0.5795 | Bordeaux (; Gascon) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 246,586 (2014). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole (...) |
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| Rennes FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 48.1147 / -1.6794 | Rennes (; , ; Gallo: Resnn;) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department (...) |
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| Lille FeatureType : null Elevation : 28 Lat/Lng : 50.6372 / 3.0633 | Lille is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders. On the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille (...) |
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| Mende, Lozère FeatureType : null Elevation : 718 Lat/Lng : 44.5194 / 3.5014 | Mende is a commune and prefecture of the department of Lozère and of the region of Occitanie in southern France. Its inhabitants are called the Mendois. The city, including the first traces of dwellings date back to 200 BC,Des fouilles vers le quartier de la Vabre ont révélé la présence d'un petit (...) |
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| Béziers FeatureType : null Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 43.3476 / 3.219 | Béziers is a town in Languedoc in southern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Hérault department.The Green Guide Languedoc Roussillon Tarn Gorges - Michelin Travel Publications 2007 Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, centred on bullfighting, every August (...) |
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| Dresden Castle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 122 Lat/Lng : 51.0527 / 13.7369 | Dresden Castle or Royal Palace (or) is one of the oldest buildings in Dresden, Germany. For almost 400 years, it was the residence of the electors (1547–1806) and kings (1806–1918) of Saxony of the Albertine line of the House of Wettin (...) |
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| Valence (city) FeatureType : null Elevation : 134 Lat/Lng : 44.9333 / 4.8917 | Valence is a commune in southeastern France, the capital of the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, about south of Lyon, along the railway line that runs from Paris to Marseille (...) |
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| Barcelona FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 41.3825 / 2.1769 | Barcelona is a city in Spain. It is the capital and largest city of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home (...) |
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| Sèvres FeatureType : null Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 48.8239 / 2.2117 | Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris and is in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in the region of Île-de-France. The commune is known for its famous porcelain production at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, which was also where (...) |
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| Jersey FeatureType : isle Elevation : 90 Lat/Lng : 49.2206 / -2.1372 | Jersey (; Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066 (...) |
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| Chongqing FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 29.55 / 106.5069 | Chongqing , formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China. Administratively, it is one of China's four municipalities under the direct administration of central government (the other three are Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin), and the only such municipality in China located far (...) |
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| Lebanon FeatureType : country Elevation : 1210 Lat/Lng : 33.8333 / 35.8333 | Lebanon (; ; Lebanese pronunciation: ;), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies. The phrase Lebanese Republic is a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names, no longer in use (...) |
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| University of Paris FeatureType : edu Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 48.8486 / 2.3433 | The University of Paris , metonymically known as the Sorbonne , was a university in Paris, France, active 1150–1793, and 1806–1970. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of Notre Dame de Paris, it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe.Haskins, C (...) |
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| Marseille FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 43.2963 / 5.3699 | Marseille (; , ; Marseilles;) is the second-largest city of France. The main city of the historical province of Provence, today it is the capital of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (...) |
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| Bilbao FeatureType : city Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 43.2569 / -2.9234 | Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the province of Biscay and in the Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the tenth largest city in Spain, with a population of 345,141 as of 2015 (...) |
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| Cambrai FeatureType : null Elevation : 65 Lat/Lng : 50.1767 / 3.2356 | Cambrai (; ; ; historically in English Camerick and Camericke) is a commune in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river. A sub-prefecture of the department, Cambrai is a town which had 32,518 inhabitants in the (...) |
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| Atlanta FeatureType : null Elevation : 335 Lat/Lng : 33.755 / -84.39 | Atlanta is the capital of, and the most populous city in, the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2017 population of 486,290, it is also the 39th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5 (...) |
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| Newport, Wales FeatureType : city Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 51.5877 / -2.9983 | Newport is a cathedral and university city and unitary authority area in south east Wales. It is located on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, approximately northeast of Cardiff. At the 2011 census it was the third largest city in Wales, with a city population of 145,700 (...) |
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| Copenhagen FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 55.6757 / 12.5787 | Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. As of July 2018, the city has a population of 777,218 (616,098 in Copenhagen Municipality, 103,914 in Frederiksberg Municipality, 43,005 in Tårnby Municipality, and 14,201 in Dragør Municipality) (...) |
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| Cherbourg-Octeville FeatureType : null Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 49.6389 / -1.6161 | Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and former commune situated at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche. It is a subprefecture of its department, and was officially formed when the commune of Cherbourg absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000 (...) |
| 39 | Carbonne FeatureType : null Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 43.2983 / 1.2197 | Carbonne (Occitan: Carbona) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. (...) | |
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| Reeperbahn FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 53.5494 / 9.9614 | The Reeperbahn is a street and entertainment district in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, one of the two centres of Hamburg's nightlife (the other being Sternschanze) and also the city's major red-light district. In German, it is also nicknamed die sündigste Meile (the most sinful mile) and Kiez (...) |
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| Neue Pinakothek FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 515 Lat/Lng : 48.1494 / 11.5708 | The Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th century and is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world (...) |
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| Kunsthalle Bremen FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 16 Lat/Lng : 53.0728 / 8.8135 | The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in Bremen, Germany. It is located close to the Bremen Old Town on the "Culture Mile" . The Kunsthalle was built in 1849, enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and expanded several more times, most notably in 2011 (...) |
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| Oradour-sur-Glane massacre FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 45.9319 / 1.0317 | On 10 June 1944, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built nearby after the war, but French president Charles de Gaulle (...) |
| 44 | Quéven FeatureType : null Elevation : 50 Lat/Lng : 47.7894 / -3.4139 | Quéven is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. (...) | |
| 45 | Agen FeatureType : null Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 44.2049 / 0.6212 | The commune of Agen is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne southeast of Bordeaux. (...) | |
| 46 | Brioude FeatureType : null Elevation : 436 Lat/Lng : 45.295 / 3.385 | Brioude (; Auvergnat: Briude) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in the Auvergne region in south-central France. It lies on the banks of the River Allier, a tributary of the Loire. (...) | |
| 47 | Villefranche-de-Rouergue FeatureType : null Elevation : 281 Lat/Lng : 44.3533 / 2.035 | Villefranche-de-Rouergue (; Vilafranca de Roergue in Occitan) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. (...) | |
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| Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 53.5359 / 9.837 | Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport is a private airport in the Finkenwerder quarter of southwest Hamburg, Germany. It is an integral part of the Hamburg Finkenwerder plant of Airbus and is exclusively used by them for corporate, freight, test and delivery flights, including the Airbus A380. (...) |
| 49 | Châteauroux FeatureType : null Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : 46.8103 / 1.6911 | Châteauroux is the capital of the Indre department in central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are calls Castelroussins. (...) | |
| 50 | Airbus FeatureType : null Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 43.6122 / 1.3631 | Airbus SE , from 2000 to 2014 known as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), is a European aerospace corporation, registered in the Netherlands and trading shares in France, Germany and Spain (...) | |
| 51 | Rambouillet FeatureType : null Elevation : 164 Lat/Lng : 48.6494 / 1.8256 | Rambouillet is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located on the outskirts of Paris, southwest from the centre. Rambouillet is a sub-prefecture of the department (...) | |
| 52 | École nationale de l'aviation civile FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 43.5653 / 1.4811 | The (ENAC) (French Civil Aviation University) is one of the 207 schools that offers engineering degrees in France. ENAC has been classified as a Grande école by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE). Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) is a non-profit organisation which accredits, montiors and (...) | |
| 53 | 1998 FIFA World Cup FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 48.9244 / 2.36 | The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It was held in France from 10 June to 12 July 1998. The country was chosen as the host nation by FIFA for the second time in the history of the tournament, defeating Morocco in (...) | |
| 54 | Transall C-160 FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 54.3136 / 9.5381 | The Transall C-160 is a military transport aircraft, produced as a joint venture between France and Germany. "Transall" is an abbreviation of the manufacturing consortium Transporter Allianz, comprising the companies of MBB, Aerospatiale and VFW-Fokker.Aircraft, compared and contrasted (p (...) | |
| 55 | Limoges FeatureType : null Elevation : 264 Lat/Lng : 45.8353 / 1.2625 | Limoges (; ; Occitan: Lemòtges or Limòtges) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region in west-central France. Limoges is known for its medieval and Renaissance enamels (Limoges enamels) on copper, for its (...) | |
| 56 | Vesoul FeatureType : null Elevation : 229 Lat/Lng : 47.6231 / 6.1558 | Vesoul is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France. It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglomération de Vesoul which covers 20 municipalities together had (...) | |
| 57 | Millau FeatureType : null Elevation : 379 Lat/Lng : 44.0986 / 3.0783 | Millau is a commune in the Aveyron department in the French Occitanie region in southern France. It is from the Aveyron prefecture headquarters in Rodez. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Tarn and Dourbie (...) | |
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| European Space Operations Centre FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 129 Lat/Lng : 49.8708 / 8.6219 | The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) serves as the main mission control centre for the European Space Agency (ESA) and is located in Darmstadt, Germany. ESOC's primary function is the operation of unmanned spacecraft on behalf of ESA and the launch and early orbit phases (LEOP) of ESA and (...) |
| 59 | UEFA Euro 2016 FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 48.9245 / 2.3602 | The 2016 UEFA European Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 or simply Euro 2016, was the 15th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA. It was held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016 (...) | |
| 60 | Aviva Stadium FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 53.3351 / -6.2283 | The Aviva Stadium (also known as Lansdowne Road;) is a sports stadium located in Dublin, Ireland, with a capacity for 51,700 spectators (all seated). It is built on the site of the former Lansdowne Road stadium, which was demolished in 2007, and replacing it as home to its chief tenants: the Irish (...) | |
| 61 | Privas FeatureType : null Elevation : 316 Lat/Lng : 44.7358 / 4.597 | Privas is a commune of France, capital of the Ardèche department. It is the smallest administrative centre of any department in France. It is the fifth-largest commune in the Ardèche, behind Annonay, Aubenas, Guilherand-Granges, and Tournon-sur-Rhône. It was the location of the 1629 Siege of Privas (...) | |
| 62 | Vichy France FeatureType : country Elevation : 249 Lat/Lng : 46.1667 / 3.4 | Vichy France is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Evacuated from Paris to Vichy in the unoccupied "Free Zone" (zone libre) in the southern part of metropolitan France which included French Algeria, it remained responsible for (...) | |
| 63 | V-2 rocket FeatureType : null Elevation : 452 Lat/Lng : 50.1885 / 5.9038 | The V-2 ("Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range"Long-range" in the context of the time. See guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a "vengeance (...) | |
| 64 | Uzerche FeatureType : null Elevation : 310 Lat/Lng : 45.4256 / 1.5642 | Uzerche (Usercha in Occitan) is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France. In 1787, the English writer Arthur Young described the town as "the pearl of the Limousin" because of its picturesque setting (...) | |
| 65 | Lourdes FeatureType : null Elevation : 408 Lat/Lng : 43.095 / -0.049 | Lourdes (; Lorda in Occitan) is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in south-western France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for the Château fort de Lourdes, a fortified castle that (...) | |
| 66 | Aurillac FeatureType : null Elevation : 623 Lat/Lng : 44.9261 / 2.4406 | Aurillac is the prefecture of the Cantal department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aurillacois or Aurillacoises. (...) | |
| 67 | French women's football clubs in international competitions FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 48.6713 / 2.375 | This is a compilation of results for teams representing France at official international women's football competitions, that is the UEFA Women's Cup and its successor, the UEFA Women's Champions League. France was first represented in them by Toulouse in the inaugural 2001–02 (...) | |
| 68 | Philadelphia Museum of Art FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 34 Lat/Lng : 39.9657 / -75.1809 | The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval (...) | |
| 69 | Perugia FeatureType : city Elevation : 436 Lat/Lng : 43.1167 / 12.3833 | Perugia is the capital city of both the region of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the river Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area (...) | |
| 70 | Kingdom of Hungary FeatureType : null Elevation : 100 Lat/Lng : 47.4667 / 19.05 | The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century (1000–1946 with the exception of 1918–1920). The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom in about the year (...) | |
| 71 | Provence FeatureType : null Elevation : 315 Lat/Lng : 43.5 / 5.5 | Provence (; ; Prouvènço) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south (...) | |
| 72 | Wallonia FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 50.51 / 4.75 | Wallonia is a region of Belgium. As the southern portion of the country, Wallonia is primarily French-speaking, and accounts for 55% of the territory of Belgium, and a third of its population. The Walloon Region was not merged with the French Community of Belgium which is the political entity that (...) | |
| 73 | Concorde FeatureType : null Elevation : 102 Lat/Lng : 49.0107 / 2.5534 | The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British-French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated from 1976 until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 2.04 (at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers (...) | |
| 74 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre FeatureType : null Elevation : 555 Lat/Lng : 43.0652 / 0.1506 | Bagnères-de-Bigorre is a commune and subprefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées Department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France. (...) | |
| 75 | Panasonic FeatureType : landamrk Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 34.7438 / 135.5701 | , formerly known as , is a Japanese multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan." ." Panasonic Corporation. Retrieved February 15, 2011. "Head Office Location 1006, Oaza Kadoma, Kadoma-shi, Osaka 571-8501, Japan" The company was founded in 1918 as a producer of (...) | |
| 76 | Lyon FeatureType : null Elevation : 177 Lat/Lng : 45.7597 / 4.8422 | Lyon (also spelled Lyons and in this case alternatively pronounced ; ;) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located in the country's east-central part at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, about south from Paris, north from Marseille and northeast from (...) | |
| 77 | Sciences Po FeatureType : edu Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 48.8542 / 2.3285 | The Paris Institute of Political Studies , commonly referred to as Sciences Po , is a prestigious and influential academic institution in the social sciences in France (legally a grande école). It was founded in 1872 to promote a new class of French politicians in the aftermath of the French defeat (...) | |
| 78 | French Riviera FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 43.365 / 6.8497 | The French Riviera (known in French as the ; ; literal translation "Coast of Azure") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from Cassis or Toulon on the west to the France–Italy border in the east, where (...) | |
| 79 | Vincent van Gogh FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 49.0753 / 2.1789 | Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two (...) | |
| 80 | Institut national des sciences appliquées de Toulouse FeatureType : edu Elevation : 152 Lat/Lng : 43.5703 / 1.4679 | The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse or INSA Toulouse is one of the 210 Grande Ecole d’Ingénieurs, an engineering school, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research (...) | |
| 81 | Aix-en-Provence TGV railway station FeatureType : railwaystation Elevation : 188 Lat/Lng : 43.4551 / 5.3173 | Aix-en-Provence TGV is a high speed railway station located in Cabriès, Bouches-du-Rhône, southern France. The station was opened in 2001 and is located on the LGV Méditerranée. The train services are operated by SNCF (...) | |
| 82 | Annonay FeatureType : null Elevation : 328 Lat/Lng : 45.2408 / 4.6714 | Annonay is a French commune in the north of the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France. It is the most populous commune in the Ardèche department although it is not the capital which is the smaller town of Privas. (...) | |
| 83 | Aubervilliers FeatureType : null Elevation : 42 Lat/Lng : 48.9131 / 2.3831 | Aubervilliers is a commune in the Seine-Saint-Denis department in the Île-de-France region in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Albertivillariens or Albertivillariennes. (...) | |
| 84 | Advanced Landing Ground FeatureType : null Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 49.3839 / -1.3333 | Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) were temporary advance airfields constructed by the Allies during World War II during the liberation of Europe. They were built in the UK prior to the invasion and thereafter in from 6 June 1944 to V-E Day, 7 May 1945 (...) | |
| 85 | East of England FeatureType : city Elevation : 36 Lat/Lng : 52.24 / 0.41 | The East of England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk (...) | |
| 86 | Kingdom of Navarre FeatureType : city Elevation : 454 Lat/Lng : 42.8169 / -1.6428 | The Kingdom of Navarre , originally the Kingdom of Pamplona , was a Basque-based kingdom that occupied lands on either side of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France (...) | |
| 87 | Catholic Church FeatureType : city Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 41.9022 / 12.4534 | The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide . As the world's "oldest continuously functioning international institution"Mark A. Noll (...) | |
| 88 | Gare d'Avignon TGV FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 22 Lat/Lng : 43.9217 / 4.7858 | Avignon TGV (IATA: XZN) is a railway station located in Avignon, France. It was opened on 10 June 2001 and is located on the LGV Méditerranée high-speed line and Avignon-Centre–Avignon TGV railway. The train services are operated by the SNCF. The station is located 6 km south of the city centre. (...) | |
| 89 | OLT Express Germany FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -1 Lat/Lng : 53.3889 / 7.2285 | OLT Express Germany (formerly OLT Ostfriesische Lufttransport GmbH or OLT) was an airline based in Bremen in Germany."." OLT. Retrieved on 4 August 2011. "OLT Express Germany GmbH Henrich-Focke-Strasse 6 28199 Bremen" The company moved to Bremen from Emden in February 2012 (...) | |
| 90 | Baraigne FeatureType : null Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 43.3314 / 1.8242 | Baraigne is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Baraignois or Baraignoises. (...) | |
| 91 | Câmpia Turzii FeatureType : null Elevation : 292 Lat/Lng : 46.5486 / 23.8967 | Câmpia Turzii is a city in Cluj County, Romania, which was formed in 1925 by the union of two villages, Ghiriş (Aranyosgyéres) and Sâncrai (Szentkirály). It was declared a town in 1950 and a city in 1998. The village of Sâncrai was mentioned in a 1219 document as "villa Sancti Regis" ("village of (...) | |
| 92 | Monteux FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 44.0361 / 4.997 | Monteux is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. (...) | |
| 93 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche FeatureType : null Elevation : 137 Lat/Lng : 48.8606 / 2.0222 | Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche is a wealthy commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. (...) | |
| 94 | Dee Estuary FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 53.309 / -3.157 | The Dee Estuary is a large estuary by means of which the River Dee flows into Liverpool Bay. The estuary starts near Shotton after a five-mile (8 km) 'canalised' section and the river soon swells to be several miles wide forming the boundary between the Wirral Peninsula in north-west England and (...) | |
| 95 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 653 Lat/Lng : 40.4161 / -3.695 | The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (in Spanish, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza ,In isolation, Thyssen is pronounced . named after its founder), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum on one of city's main boulevards (...) | |
| 96 | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry FeatureType : landmark Lat/Lng : 43.175 / 5.4028 | Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry (; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944) was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist, and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the U.S. National Book Award (...) | |
| 97 | Battle of Tours FeatureType : null Elevation : 57 Lat/Lng : 47.3936 / 0.6892 | The Battle of Tours (10 October 732)Oman, 1960, p. 167, gives the traditional date of October 10, 732. , citing , goes with October 17, 733. , concludes "late (October?) 733" based on the "likely" appointment date of the successor of Abdul Rahman, who was killed in the battle (...) | |
| 98 | Prehistory of France FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 43.494 / 3.438 | Prehistoric France is the period in the human occupation (including early hominins) of the geographical area covered by present-day France which extended through prehistory and ended in the Iron Age with the Celtic "La Tène culture" (...) | |
| 99 | Aquitaine Basin FeatureType : null Elevation : 111 Lat/Lng : 44.2667 / -0.1667 | The Aquitaine Basin is, after the Paris Basin, the second largest Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary basin in France, occupying a large part of the country's southwestern quadrant. Its surface area covers 66,000 km2 onshore (...) | |
| 100 | Buc, Yvelines FeatureType : null Elevation : 115 Lat/Lng : 48.7742 / 2.1261 | Buc is a commune in the Yvelines department and Île-de-France region of north central France. (...) | |
| 101 | Institut d'études politiques de Lyon FeatureType : null Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 45.7469 / 4.8358 | The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon (or Lyon Institute of Political Studies) also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France. It is one of nine Institutes of Political Studies in France, and was established in 1948 by Charles de Gaulle’s provisional government (...) | |
| 102 | EBS University of Business and Law FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 92 Lat/Lng : 50.0125 / 8.05 | EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht (literally "university for business and law"), more commonly referred to as EBS Universität or simply EBS, is a private research university for business and law located in Wiesbaden and Oestrich-Winkel, founded in 1971 (...) | |
| 103 | Charlie Hebdo shooting FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 48.8592 / 2.3703 | On 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with rifles and other weapons, they killed 12 people and injured 11 others (...) | |
| 104 | Huamantla FeatureType : null Elevation : 2520 Lat/Lng : 19.3118 / -97.9254 | Huamantla (Spanish) is a small city in Huamantla Municipality located in the eastern half of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. The area has a long indigenous history, but the city itself was not founded until the early colonial period, in the 1530s (...) | |
| 105 | Dalida FeatureType : null Elevation : 77 Lat/Lng : 48.8861 / 2.3322 | Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida was a French vocalist and actress, born in Cairo, Egypt, to Italian parents. She won the Miss Egypt beauty contest in 1954 and began a 30-year singing career in 1956, selling 140 million albums and singles (...) | |
| 106 | Swastika FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 32.6762 / -117.1577 | The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it is a symbol of divinity and spirituality in some Eastern religions. In the Western world it was a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck until the 1930s, when it became a (...) | |
| 107 | Haslingden FeatureType : null Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 53.7033 / -2.3238 | Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire, England. It is north of Manchester. The name means 'valley of the hazels'. At the time of the 2001 census the town had a population of 16,849. Haslingden is the birthplace of the industrialist John Cockerill (1790–1840) and the composer Alan Rawsthorne (...) | |
| 108 | 2005 French riots FeatureType : null Elevation : 135 Lat/Lng : 47.0 / 2.0 | The 2005 French riots was a three-week period of riots in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities,Jocelyne Cesari (November 2005). Ethnicity, Islam, and les banlieues: Confusing the Issues in October and November 2005 (...) | |
| 109 | École pratique des hautes études FeatureType : null Elevation : 58 Lat/Lng : 48.8311 / 2.34 | The École pratique des hautes études , abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France, and a constituent college of PSL Research University. It is counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions (...) | |
| 110 | 2016 Normandy church attack FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 49.3828 / 1.1068 | On 26 July 2016, two Islamist terrorists attacked participants in a Mass at a Catholic church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, northern France. Wielding knives and wearing fake explosive belts, the men took six people captive and later killed one of them, 85-year-old priest Jacques Hamel, by (...) | |
| 111 | Ground-effect vehicle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : -21 Lat/Lng : 42.8819 / 47.6567 | A ground-effect vehicle (GEV) is a vehicle that is designed to attain sustained flight over a level surface (usually over the sea) by making use of ground effect, the aerodynamic interaction between the wings and the surface (...) | |
| 112 | Total S.A. FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 63 Lat/Lng : 48.8924 / 2.2436 | Total S.A. (; or) is a French multinational integrated oil and gas company and one of the seven "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, (...) | |
| 113 | Operation Serval FeatureType : null Elevation : 257 Lat/Lng : 16.2667 / -0.05 | Operation Serval was a French military operation in Mali. The aim of the operation was to oust Islamic militants from the north of Mali, who had begun a push into the center of Mali. Operation Serval followed the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2085 of December 20, 2012 and an official (...) | |
| 114 | SES S.A. FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 277 Lat/Lng : 49.6942 / 6.33 | SES S.A. is a communications satellite owner and operator providing video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions, with a mission to “connect, enable, and enrich”. SES Company Brochure (...) | |
| 115 | LibreOffice FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 48.8333 / 2.3333 | LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010, which was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, (...) | |
| 116 | International E-road network FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 71.1667 / 25.8 | The international E-road network is a numbering system for roads in Europe developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The network is numbered from E 1 up and its roads cross national borders (...) | |
| 117 | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 549 Lat/Lng : 43.8579 / 18.4288 | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip (...) | |
| 118 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 433 Lat/Lng : 44.0992 / 6.0175 | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (; ; ; PACA) is one of the 18 administrative regions of France. Its capital is Marseille. The region is roughly coterminous with the former French province of Provence, with the addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as (...) | |
| 119 | Cardiff Arms Park FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 51.4797 / -3.1836 | Cardiff Arms Park , also known as The Arms Park and the BT Sport Cardiff Arms Park for sponsorship reasons from September 2014, is situated in the centre of Cardiff, Wales. It is primarily known as a rugby union stadium, but it also has a bowling green (...) | |
| 120 | Operation Steinbock FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 52.1296 / 5.2676 | Operation Steinbock , sometimes called the Baby Blitz, was a strategic bombing campaign by the German air force (the Luftwaffe) during the Second World War. It targeted southern England and lasted from January to May 1944 (...) | |
| 121 | Giordano Bruno FeatureType : null Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 52.5098 / 13.376 | Giordano Bruno (; ; ; born Filippo Bruno, 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist.Bruno was a mathematician and philosopher, but is not considered an astronomer by the modern astronomical community, as there is no record of (...) | |
| 122 | Bombing of Guernica FeatureType : null Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 43.3144 / -2.6778 | The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out, at the behest of Francisco Franco's nationalist government, by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione (...) | |
| 123 | Bundeswehr University Munich FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 550 Lat/Lng : 48.0803 / 11.6381 | Bundeswehr University Munich (UniBw München) is one of only two federal research universities in Germany that both were founded in 1973 as part of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). Originally called Hochschule der Bundeswehr München the institution was supposed to offer civilian academic (...) | |
| 124 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Beauvais FeatureType : null Elevation : 72 Lat/Lng : 49.432 / 2.0812 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis (Latin: Dioecesis Bellovacensis, Noviomensis et Silvanectensis; French: Diocèse de Beauvais, Noyon et Senlis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France (...) | |
| 125 | Audencia Business School FeatureType : null Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 47.2468 / -1.5527 | Audencia Business School is a top business school in France and in Europe, and is one of the only 1% business schools in the world accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) (...) | |
| 126 | Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin FeatureType : edu}} Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 52.5445 / 13.3528 | The Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin (German Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin) also: Beuth Hochschule or BHT Berlin (formerly known as Technische Fachhochschule Berlin) is the second largest University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany (...) | |
| 127 | Barge FeatureType : null Elevation : 428 Lat/Lng : 44.7333 / 7.3167 | A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and must be towed or pushed by towboats, canal barges or towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath (...) | |
| 128 | Metz-Frescaty Air Base FeatureType : null Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 49.0765 / 6.1339 | Metz-Frescaty Air Base is a front-line French Air Force (ALA) base. The base is located approximately south-southwest of Metz (Département de la Moselle,Lorraine) ; about east of Paris. A military restructuring plan announced in July 2008 was to close BA 128 in 2011 (...) | |
| 129 | The Cloisters FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 40.8648 / -73.9319 | The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, New York City, specializing in European medieval architecture, sculpture and decorative arts, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods (...) | |
| 130 | Aix-Marseille University FeatureType : null Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 43.2935 / 5.3579 | Aix-Marseille University (AMU; ; formally incorporated as Université d'Aix-Marseille) is a public research university located in Provence, southern France. It was founded in 1409 when Louis II of Anjou, Count of Provence, petitioned the Pisan Antipope Alexander V to establish the University of (...) | |
| 131 | Mossad FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 32.1424 / 34.804 | Mossad (; , ; , ', ; literally meaning "the Institute"), short for ' (meaning "Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations"), is the national intelligence agency of Israel. It is one of the main entities in the Israeli Intelligence Community, along with Aman (military intelligence) and Shin (...) | |
| 132 | 1967 FeatureType : null Elevation : 35 Lat/Lng : 51.6523 / -0.082 | ==Events== ===January=== * January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. * January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is inaugurated the (...) | |
| 133 | Quartier Pigalle FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 48.8823 / 2.3374 | Pigalle is an area in Paris around the Place Pigalle, on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements. It is named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785). Pigalle is famous for being a tourist district, with many sex shops, theatres and adult shows on Place Pigalle and the (...) | |
| 134 | Sciences Po Lille FeatureType : edu Elevation : 29 Lat/Lng : 50.6282 / 3.066 | Sciences Po Lille - Institut d'études politiques de Lille , officially referred to as Sciences Po Lille (pronounced see-ohns po), is part of the highly selective grandes écoles and is located in Lille, France. Sciences Po Lille is educating France's political and diplomatic elite, but its academic (...) | |
| 135 | Portuguese Army FeatureType : null Elevation : 130 Lat/Lng : 39.4333 / -8.3 | The Portuguese Army is the land component of the Armed Forces of Portugal and is also its largest branch. It is charged with the defence of Portugal, in co-operation with other branches of the Armed Forces. It is one of the oldest armies in the world, with its origins going back to the 12th century (...) | |
| 136 | Eugène Freyssinet FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 230 Lat/Lng : 46.4544 / 3.6399 | Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. (...) | |
| 137 | Dallas Museum of Art FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 144 Lat/Lng : 32.7874 / -96.8008 | The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In 1984, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Arts District (...) | |
| 138 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy FeatureType : null Elevation : 202 Lat/Lng : 48.6914 / 6.1864 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy and Toul (Latin: Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis; French: Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. After a considerable political struggle between Louis XV, Louis XVI, and the Dukes of Lorraine, the (...) | |
| 139 | Group Fortifications Francois-de-Guise FeatureType : null Elevation : 339 Lat/Lng : 49.1446 / 6.0561 | The ', renamed Group Fortifications Francois-de-Guise after 1919 by the French, is a military structure located in the municipality of Châtel-Saint-Germain, close to Metz. It is part of the second fortified belt of and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when the Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 140 | Princeton University Art Museum FeatureType : null Elevation : 68 Lat/Lng : 40.3472 / -74.658 | The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University's gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1882, it now houses over 92,000 works of art that range from antiquity to the contemporary period (...) | |
| 141 | Group Fortification Lorraine FeatureType : null Elevation : 374 Lat/Lng : 49.1714 / 6.0923 | The ', renamed Group Fortification Lorraine after 1919, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the second fortified belt of and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when the Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 142 | 1938 in aviation FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 12.45 / 130.6667 | This is a list of aviation-related events from 1938: (...) | |
| 143 | Technical University of Crete FeatureType : null Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 35.5299 / 24.0663 | The Technical University of Crete (TUC; , Polytechneio Kritis) is a state university under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education and was founded in 1977 in Chania, Crete. The first students were admitted in 1984 (...) | |
| 144 | FIFA World Cup stadiums FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 44.4923 / 11.3097 | This article is regarding the stadiums used for FIFA World Cup. (...) | |
| 145 | Operation Frantic FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 155 Lat/Lng : 49.6269 / 34.4864 | Operation Frantic was a series of seven shuttle bombing operations during World War II conducted by American aircraft based in Great Britain and southern Italy which then landed at three Soviet airfields in Ukraine. The operation ran between June and September, 1944. (...) | |
| 146 | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens FeatureType : null Elevation : 78 Lat/Lng : 48.1979 / 3.2837 | The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre (Latin: Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis; French: Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre) is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France (...) | |
| 147 | Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal FeatureType : null Elevation : 143 Lat/Lng : 39.3428 / -76.8556 | Elaine Hamilton-O'Neal, (October 13, 1920 – March 15, 2010),Social Security Death Index Number: 217-16-7883; Issue State: Maryland; Issue Date: Before 1951. professionally known as Elaine Hamilton, was an internationally known American abstract painter and muralist born near Catonsville, Maryland (...) | |
| 148 | 4 Vesta FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 3.0 / 0.0 | Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of . It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology (...) | |
| 149 | Titelberg FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 392 Lat/Lng : 49.539 / 5.8593 | Titelberg is the site of a large Celtic settlement or oppidum in the extreme south west of Luxembourg. In the 1st century BC, this thriving community was probably the capital of the Treveri people. The site thus provides telling evidence of urban civilization in what is now Luxembourg long before (...) | |
| 150 | Sala FeatureType : null Elevation : 532 Lat/Lng : -7.2023 / 14.5641 | Sala may refer to: == Places == ===Europe=== *Sala, the historical name of the river IJssel and home of the Salii Franks *Sala Bolognese, municipality in Emilia-Romagna, Italy *Sala Consilina, municipality in Campania, Italy *Sala, a river in Germany mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry V - probably (...) | |
| 151 | Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium Saarbrücken FeatureType : edu Elevation : 194 Lat/Lng : 49.2301 / 7.0164 | DFG LFA Saarbrücken (is a French-German international gymnasium/lycée (sixth form college/senior high school) in Saarbrücken, Germany."." DFG LFA Saarbrücken. Retrieved on 28 April 2015. "Halbergstr. 112 D – 66121 Saarbrücken" It is one of three schools established as a result of the 1963 Élysée (...) | |
| 152 | Armory Show FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 40.7412 / -73.9835 | The Armory Show, also known as the International Exhibition of Modern Art, was a show organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in 1913. It was the first large exhibition of modern art in America, as well as one of the many exhibitions that have been held in the vast spaces of (...) | |
| 153 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoges FeatureType : city Elevation : 256 Lat/Lng : 45.8281 / 1.2647 | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Limoges (Latin: Dioecesis Lemovicensis; French: Diocèse de Limoges) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the départments of Haute-Vienne and Creuse (...) | |
| 154 | Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 47.2361 / -1.5685 | The Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, in the département of Loire-Atlantique in north-western France, followed by the disappearance of the father of the family (...) | |
| 155 | Group Fortifications of Aisne FeatureType : null Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 49.0138 / 6.1941 | The , renamed Group Fortifications of Aisne by the French in 1919, is a fort of the from Metz, in Moselle. This group fortification, built in the municipalities of Pournoy-la-Grasse and of Verny, controlled the valley of the Seille (...) | |
| 156 | Timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 14.9 / 109.25 | The timeline of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lists events associated with the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370—a scheduled, commercial flight operated by Malaysia Airlines from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport on 8 March 2014 with 239 (...) | |
| 157 | Crosier Monastery, Maastricht FeatureType : null Elevation : 62 Lat/Lng : 50.8486 / 5.6839 | The Crosier Monastery or Monastery of the Crutched Friars is a former monastery of the Order of the Holy Cross in Maastricht, Netherlands. The well-preserved convent buildings house a five-star hotel, the Kruisherenhotel (...) | |
| 158 | Group Fortification Marne FeatureType : null Elevation : 253 Lat/Lng : 49.0876 / 6.2561 | The ', renamed ' in 1911 and then The Group Fortification Marne in 1919, is a military installation near Metz, in the woods between Jury, and Ars-Laquenexy. It is part of the second fortified belt of and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when the Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 159 | St. Remigius, Bonn FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 50.736 / 7.1032 | St. Remigius is a Catholic church and parish in Bonn, Germany. The building was completed in 1307, in Gothic style. (...) | |
| 160 | Sarepta FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 33.4575 / 35.2958 | Sarepta (near modern , Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titular see (...) | |
| 161 | Moulin de la Galette FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 48.8874 / 2.337 | The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since the 17th century the windmill has been known for more than just its milling capabilities (...) | |
| 162 | Concorde aircraft histories FeatureType : null Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 51.3553 / -0.4642 | Twenty Concorde aircraft were built, six for development and 14 for commercial service. These were *Two prototypes *Two pre-production aircraft *Two development aircraft *14 production aircraft All but two of these aircraft are preserved. (...) | |
| 163 | Timeline of Atlanta FeatureType : city Elevation : 335 Lat/Lng : 33.755 / -84.39 | The following is a of the history of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. (...) | |
| 164 | Rem Koolhaas FeatureType : null Elevation : 61 Lat/Lng : 48.8559 / 2.2182 | Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (...) | |
| 165 | Structure of the French Army in 1989 FeatureType : null Elevation : 165 Lat/Lng : 49.1167 / 6.1667 | The Order of Battle of the French Army in 1989 is given below. In 1977 the Army had changed its military organisation in accordance with a short war-fighting strategy in Europe, and divisions lost their component brigades (...) | |
| 166 | Group Fortification Verdun FeatureType : null Elevation : 274 Lat/Lng : 49.0454 / 6.0995 | The , renamed Group Fortification Verdun after 1919, is a military installation near Metz. Constituted as forts Sommy and Saint-Blaise, the fortified group is part of the second fortified belt of . It had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when the Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 167 | Fortifications of Saint-Quentin FeatureType : null Elevation : 354 Lat/Lng : 49.121 / 6.1193 | The Fortifications of Saint-Quentin, or form a fortification group in the Scy-Chazelles municipality located northwest of Metz on the Mont Saint-Quentin. Constituted by forts Diou and Girardin, the group is part of the first fortified belt of forts around Metz and had its baptism of fire in late (...) | |
| 168 | Kampfgeschwader 100 FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 19 Lat/Lng : 53.7672 / 8.6586 | Kampfgeschwader 100 (KG 100) was a Luftwaffe medium and heavy bomber wing of World War II, and the first military aviation unit to use an unpowered precision-guided munition in combat to sink a warship on 9 September 1943 with the destruction of the Italian battleship Roma, in the first successful (...) | |
| 169 | William Francis Patrick Napier FeatureType : null Elevation : 46 Lat/Lng : 51.4331 / -0.0981 | General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB (7 December 1785 – 12 February 1860) was an Irish soldier in the British Army and a military historian. (...) | |
| 170 | Harvard Art Museums FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 42.3742 / -71.1147 | The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985) and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (...) | |
| 171 | Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 51.5056 / -0.0756 | The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant was a parade on 3 June 2012 of 670 boats on the Tideway of the River Thames in London as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Queen, Prince Philip and other members of the Royal Family were aboard vessels that took part in the parade (...) | |
| 172 | Battle of Pontvallain FeatureType : null Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 47.7512 / 0.1922 | The Battle of Pontvallain was fought on 4 December 1370 in the Sarthe region during the Hundred Years' War. English forces that had broken away from the army commanded by Sir Robert Knolles fought a French army under the newly appointed Constable of France, Bertrand du Guesclin (...) | |
| 173 | Französisches Gymnasium Berlin FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 52.5034 / 13.3554 | The Französisches Gymnasium is a long-existing francophone gymnasium in Berlin, Germany. (...) | |
| 174 | Saint Louis FeatureType : null Elevation : 279 Lat/Lng : 48.987 / 7.356 | Saint Louis, Saint-Louis or St. Louis may refer to a number of things, the great majority named after Saint Louis IX (1214–1270), a King of France and Catholic saint, and including the American city of St. Louis. (...) | |
| 175 | Couserans FeatureType : null Elevation : 394 Lat/Lng : 42.99 / 1.15 | Couserans (; Gascon: Coserans) is a small former province of France located in the Pyrenees mountains. Today Couserans makes up the western half of the Ariège département, around the towns of Saint-Girons and Saint-Lizier (...) | |
| 176 | Lycée Jean Renoir (Munich) FeatureType : null Elevation : 536 Lat/Lng : 48.1243 / 11.5423 | Lycée Jean Renoir is a French international school in Munich, Germany, operated by the Agency for French Teaching Abroad. About 1,415 students attend the school. It serves levels maternelle (preschool) through lycée (senior high school)."." Lycée Jean Renoir. Retrieved on 22 January 2015 (...) | |
| 177 | Fort de Saint-Julien FeatureType : null Elevation : 265 Lat/Lng : 49.1409 / 6.2134 | The Fort de Saint-Julien, renamed ' in German, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the first fortified belt forts of Metz and had its baptism of fire in late 1944 in the Battle of Metz. (...) | |
| 178 | Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy (Van Gogh series) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 43.7765 / 4.8334 | Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint-Rémy is a collection of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made when he was a self-admitted patient at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, since renamed the Clinique Van Gogh, from May 1889 until May 1890 (...) | |
| 179 | Roman Catholic Diocese of Sisteron FeatureType : null Elevation : 533 Lat/Lng : 44.2 / 5.94 | The former French diocese of Sisteron existed until the French Revolution. Its see was at Sisteron in southern France and at Forcalquier, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron was the only diocese in France which had two cathedrals (...) | |
| 180 | Fort Gambetta FeatureType : null Elevation : 169 Lat/Lng : 49.1517 / 6.1759 | The Feste Hindersin renamed Gambetta fort by the French in 1919, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the first fortified belt of and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 181 | Fort des Bordes FeatureType : null Elevation : 217 Lat/Lng : 49.1181 / 6.2206 | The ', renamed Fort des Bordes by the French in 1919, is a military structure located in the district of in Metz. It is part of the first fortified belt of the forts of Metz. Buried since the construction of the Eastern expressway in 1968, it is covered by a green space, although some remnants of (...) | |
| 182 | Fort Déroulède FeatureType : null Elevation : 217 Lat/Lng : 49.1493 / 6.1394 | The ', renamed Fort Déroulède by the French in 1919, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the first fortified belt of forts of Metz and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, in the Battle of Metz. (...) | |
| 183 | Rugby union in France FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 44.1925 / 0.6206 | Rugby union in France is a popular team sport. Rugby union was first introduced in the early 1870s by British residents. Elite French clubs participate in the professional domestic club league, the Top 14. Clubs also compete in the European knock-out competition, the European Rugby Champions Cup, (...) | |
| 184 | University of Craiova FeatureType : null Elevation : 113 Lat/Lng : 44.3192 / 23.8006 | The University of Craiova is a public university located in Craiova, Romania. It was founded in 1947, initially with four institutes, in the Palace of Justice of Craiova. It is the largest university in the historical Oltenia province of Romania (...) | |
| 185 | Goodman School of Business FeatureType : edu Elevation : 179 Lat/Lng : 43.119 / -79.249 | The Goodman School of Business (colloquially referred to as Goodman) is the business school of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The business school offers programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level of study (...) | |
| 186 | Musée national des Monuments Français FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 48.8632 / 2.2896 | The Musée national des Monuments Français is today a museum of plaster casts of French monuments located in the Palais de Chaillot, 1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris, France. It now forms part of the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, and is open daily except Tuesday (...) | |
| 187 | Institute of Technology of Cambodia FeatureType : edu Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 11.5706 / 104.8981 | The Institut de Technologie du Cambodge (ITC) (Institute of Technology of Cambodia), also known as Sala Techno , is a higher education institution in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that trains students in science, technology and engineering (...) | |
| 188 | Group Fortification Yser FeatureType : null Elevation : 242 Lat/Lng : 49.0239 / 6.2366 | The ', renamed Group Fortification Yser after 1919, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the second fortified belt of and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when the Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 189 | Lycée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry de Hambourg FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 53.6044 / 9.9577 | Lycée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry de Hambourg or Lycée Français de Hambourg (LFH;) is a French international school in Lokstedt , Hamburg, Germany.. Lycée Antoine-de-Saint-Exupéry de Hambourg. Retrieved on 19 January 2015 (...) | |
| 190 | Kunsthalle Tübingen FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 452 Lat/Lng : 48.5419 / 9.0478 | Kunsthalle Tübingen is the most famous art museum of the university town of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was founded (and the erection of its building financed) in 1971 by Paula Zundel and Dr. Margarethe Fischer-Bosch, daughters of the industrialist Robert Bosch (founder of Robert Bosch (...) | |
| 191 | High School No. 1, Bydgoszcz FeatureType : null Elevation : 43 Lat/Lng : 53.1267 / 18.0067 | High School no. 1 "Cyprian Norwid" in Bydgoszcz, is a Polish high school in Bydgoszcz, located at Freedom Square 9. Currently, the director of the school is Mariola Mańkowska. (...) | |
| 192 | International School of Toulouse FeatureType : null Elevation : 182 Lat/Lng : 43.6148 / 1.3032 | The International School of Toulouse is a private, international day school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18. It was founded in 1999 by Airbus Mobility, a wholly owned subsidiary of Airbus SAS, with the aim to facilitate the global mobility of the company's workforce (...) | |
| 193 | Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy FeatureType : null Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 45.7486 / 0.6175 | Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (–), a figurative French sculptor, was born "Jean Robert" in Dun-sur-Meuse. His artwork had a distinct style, combining abstract elements with the human figure, often in the écorché style of French anatomists (...) | |
| 194 | L'Âme de la France FeatureType : null Elevation : 946 Lat/Lng : -21.0646 / 55.5212 | L'Âme de la France ("The Soul of France") is the name given by the French sculptor Carlo Sarrabezolles to three identical monumental statues that he executed in three different materials during the interwar period, the first in plaster in 1921, the second in stone in 1922, and the last in bronze in (...) | |
| 195 | Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Boise, Idaho) FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 832 Lat/Lng : 43.6215 / -116.1986 | The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, also known simply as St. John's Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral and parish church located in Boise, Idaho, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Boise. The church building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in (...) | |
| 196 | Fort Decaen FeatureType : null Elevation : 245 Lat/Lng : 49.138 / 6.1247 | The ', renamed fort Decaen by the French in 1919, is a military installation near Metz. It is part of the first fortified belt of forts of Metz and had its baptism of fire in late 1944, when Battle of Metz occurred. (...) | |
| 197 | Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : 44.7985 / -0.6141 | Sciences Po Bordeaux, or Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Bordeaux, is a French political science grande école located on the university campus of Pessac, 8 km from the centre of Bordeaux.http://www.sciencespobordeaux.fr/fr/index.html It is attached to the Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV (...) | |
| 198 | Compagnie française des métaux FeatureType : null Elevation : 286 Lat/Lng : 48.27 / 4.72 | The Compagnie française des métaux (CFM) was a French metallurgy company founded in 1892 that acquired the assets of a predecessor that had gone into liquidation. The company operated a number of plants in different locations in France, mainly making copper and aluminum products (...) | |
| 199 | Lycée français Victor Hugo FeatureType : null Elevation : 112 Lat/Lng : 50.1346 / 8.608 | Lycée français Victor-Hugo (LFVH), also known as Französische Schule Lycee Victor Hugo in German, is a French international school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, which belongs to the AEFE network of schools. The school serves students from "maternelle" (kindegarten) up to the "lycée" (sixth form (...) | |
| 200 | École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de constructions aéronautiques FeatureType : null Elevation : 163 Lat/Lng : 43.6147 / 1.4661 | The École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs de constructions aéronautiques (ENSICA), meaning National Higher School of aeronautical constructions, is a French engineering school founded in 1945. It is located in Toulouse (...) | |
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