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ID: 1049657
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049657
Record Type:
administrative
Abrantes (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 008 12 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -8.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Tagus river; developed as strategic center on route to Lisbon; was taken from Moors by Alfonso I of Portugal & thereafter marked Portuguese border; was site of French victory in Peninsular campaign of Napoleonic Wars in 1807.
Names:
Abrantes
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Aurantes
(
H
,
V
)
............
Latin name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Portugal
(nation) (
P
)
............
Santarém
(national district) (
P
)
................
Abrantes
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient center
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Abrantes..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 12 May 2014
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
Aurantes..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
3
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
3
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 12 May 2014
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2156969
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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