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ID: 7007785
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007785
Record Type:
administrative
Huesca (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 42 08 19 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 42.1387
decimal degrees
Long: 000 24 34 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.4094
decimal degrees
Note:
Taken by Visigoths & Moors; went to Peter I of Aragón in 1096; church of San Miguel was founded by Alfonso I in 1110; cathedral was finished in 1515; manufactures agricultural manchinery & handicrafts.
Names:
Huesca
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ileosca
(
H
,
V
)
............
original
Osca
(
H
,
V
)
Urbs Victrix
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
España
(nation) (
P
)
............
Aragón
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Huesca
(province) (
P
)
....................
Huesca
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an important ancient center
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
educational center (
H
)
............
university founded by Peter IV 1354; closed 1800s
capital (
H
)
............
of Iberian tribe Vescitan ; of Aragón until 1118
Sources and Contributors:
Huesca..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 121
.................
Guide Bleu: Espagne (1967)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
87
.................
USBGN: Spain (1961)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Ileosca..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 121
Osca..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 121
Urbs Victrix..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 121
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 121
..................
Guide Bleu: Espagne (1967)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-385645
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
87
..................
USBGN: Spain (1961)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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