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ID: 1084676
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084676
Record Type:
administrative
Tacloban (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 11.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 125 01 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 125.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest city & distributing center in E Visayas; has good harbor; was a major Allied logistical base during WW II; seized by Japanese 1942 & retaken by US in 1944; served as temporary national capital until Manila was regained.
Names:
Tacloban
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Philippines
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tacloban
(special city) (
P
)
................
Tacloban
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
established by Spanish 19th cen.
port (
C
)
............
opened to foreign trade 1874
trade center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Tacloban..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 488
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
192
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1178-1179
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 488
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
192
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1178-1179
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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