...There are many Bronze Age ruins, and in the Middle Ages it was important as a royal forest and a tin producing area, but today it has a desolate treeless landscape, where sheep and foals graze and granite and china clay are mined. Okehampton at the northern end is the commercial and tourist center, and Princetown in the center has a prison built in 1806 to house French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars. It was designated a national park in 1951. *Some of the terminology that mentions "Princetown" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…青銅器時代の遺跡が多く,中世には王室林やスズ産地として重要であったが,現在は樹木のない荒涼たる景観を示し,羊・小馬の放牧や花コウ岩・陶土の採掘が行われる。北端部のオークハンプトンOkehamptonが商業・観光の中心地であり,また中央のプリンスタウンPrincetownには1806年建設の刑務所があって,ナポレオン戦争時のフランス人捕虜などを収容した。1951年国立公園に指定された。… ※「Princetown」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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