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ID: 7006288
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006288
Record Type:
administrative
Córdoba (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 24 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -31.4000
decimal degrees
Long: 064 11 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -64.1833
decimal degrees
Note:
Second largest city in Argentina; settled by Jesuits in 1599; prospered as viceroyalty of Peru in 17th cen.; economy suffered with creation of viceroyalty of Río de la Plata in 1776; center of labor activism & radical politicians in 20th cen.
Names:
Córdoba
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
............
Córdoba
(province) (
P
)
................
Córdoba
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1573
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
............
since 1869
industrial center (
C
)
............
since 1869
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
since Jesuits founded 1st university in nation, 1613
tourist center (
C
)
religious center (
H
)
............
for conservative Roman Catholic ideas, 19th-early 20th cen.
capital (
H
)
............
of one of the eight administrative regions created by the Bourbon intendente system instituted by Spain, 1783
Sources and Contributors:
Córdoba..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 625
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
291
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 625
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
291
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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