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ID: 7007483
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007483
Record Type:
administrative
Bilbao (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 15 39 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.2609
decimal degrees
Long: 002 56 20 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.9388
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest city in Basque country; most significant Spanish port; flourished from active trade with Spanish colonies in America 18th cen.; under French occupation 1795 & during Peninsular War 1808-1813; attacked by Carlists 1835 & 1874.
Names:
Bilbao
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bilboa
(
C
,
V
)
Biscaya
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
España
(nation) (
P
)
............
País Vasco
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Vizcaya
(province) (
P
)
....................
Bilbao
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
modern city founded ca. 1300 on ancient site
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
financial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
University of Bilbao founded 1968
capital (
H
)
............
of autonomous Basque government, 1936-1937
Sources and Contributors:
Bilbao..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 103
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 211
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
28
Bilboa..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 103
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Biscaya..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 103
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 211
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-373608
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
28
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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