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ID: 7007258
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007258
Record Type:
administrative
Algeciras (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 07 39 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.1275
decimal degrees
Long: 005 27 14 W
degrees minutes
Long: -5.4539
decimal degrees
Note:
Port was founded by Moors in 713; port was recaptured by Alfonso XI of Castile in 1344; later retaken & ruined by Moors 1368; port was reconstructed by Charles III on current rectangular plan 1760; ferries handle passengers to & from Morocco.
Names:
Algeciras
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Al Jezita
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
España
(nation) (
P
)
............
Andalucía
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Cádiz
(province) (
P
)
....................
Algeciras
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
Moors settled here in 8th cen.
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Algeciras..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 262
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
10
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Al Jezita..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 262
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-370160
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
10
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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