Natchitoches is a city in northwestern Louisiana on the Cane River, founded in 1714 by the French-Canadian explorer and soldier Louis Juchereau de Saint-Denis as Fort St. Jean Baptiste, making it the oldest permanent European settlement in the present-day state, established to promote trade with local Native American tribes and with Spanish territory in Mexico. It developed into a cotton market whose commercial importance declined after 1825, when the Red River shifted course away from the town, a change that inadvertently preserved much of its 18th and 19th century architecture and gave the historic district its distinctive French and Creole character.
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1. Wikidata: Natchitoches
Wikidata Q2278195, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 31.75, -93.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 31.75, -93.25
31.75 -93.25 Cfa
3. GeoNames: Natchitoches - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 4334720, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 4334720, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
31.76072 -93.08627 P PPLA2 US LA 069 18365 36 42 America/Chicago
Wikidata: United States
On Continent: North America, Wikidata item for United States, property P30 (continent)View the Source Natchitoches (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Northern America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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