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ID: 7005443
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005443
Record Type:
administrative
Recife (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 06 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -8.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 034 53 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -34.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
Called the Venice of Brazil because of its waterways; raided by French in 1561 & English in 1595; captured by Dutch 1630-1654; prospered under Count John Maurice of Nassau; home of several universities, research centers & a symphony orchestra.
Names:
Recife
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pernambuco
(
H
,
V
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pernambuco
(state) (
P
)
................
Recife
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Portuguese colonist in 16th cen.
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1823
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Pernambuco..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-661347
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
152
Recife..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 977
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
163
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 977
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-661347
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
152; 163
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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