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ID: 1084166
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084166
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Dagupan City (inhabited place)  Dagupan City (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 16 02 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 16.0333  decimal degrees
Long: 120 21 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 120.3500  decimal degrees

Note: Established by Spanish; was stronghold of insurgent resistance during Spanish-American War in 1898; was initial point of invasion in Japanese drive to Manila in WW II; today is port for region that produces fish, solar-evaporated salt, rice, and fruit.

Names:
Dagupan City (preferred,C,V)
Bacnotan (H,V)
Dagupan (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Philippines (nation)  ........  Philippines (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Dagupan (special city)  ............  Dagupan (special city) (P)
Hierarchy of Dagupan City (inhabited place)  ................  Dagupan City (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Augustinian missionaries 1590s
city (C)
municipality (C)
port (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)
episcopal see (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bacnotan..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 220
Dagupan..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 847
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 52
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 310
Dagupan City..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 16 April 2015
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 220
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 847
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 52
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 310
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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