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ID: 1049791
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1049791
Record Type:
administrative
Horta (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 32 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 38.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 028 38 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -28.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on SE shore of Faial island; was base for American whalers on Atlantic Ocean 1700-1910; exports wine, fruit & grains; site of radio station, air base & naval base; noted architecture includes churches of São Salvador & São Francisco.
Names:
Horta
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Portugal
(nation) (
P
)
............
Açores
(autonomous region) (
P
)
................
Horta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Portugal
(nation) (
P
)
............
Açores
(autonomous region) (
P
)
................
Faial, Ilha do
(island) (
P
)
....................
Horta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Flemish Jobst van Heurter under jurisdiction of Portuguese royals 1466
town (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Horta..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
272
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 74
..............
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 28 April 2014
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
86
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
272
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 74
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 28 April 2014
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2167069
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
86
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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