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Puebla de Zaragoza (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 19 03 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 19.0500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 098 12 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -98.2000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Founded by Spanish; considered a military key to Mexico due to its strategic position; occupied by US in 1847; site of French defeat by Ignacio Zaragoza in 1862; French recaptured 1863, were defeated by Díaz 1867; has traditional Spanish architecture. |
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| Puebla de Zaragoza (preferred,C,V)
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| Puebla (C,V)
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| Puebla de los Angeles (H,V)
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded 1532 |
| city (C) |
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| state capital (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| agricultural center (C) |
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| episcopal see (H) |
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1550 |
| archiepiscopal see (H) |
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1903 |
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Related geographic places: |
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| near/adjacent to .... |
Cantona .......... (deserted settlement) |
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(World, North and Central America, Mexico, Puebla state) [7032778] |
| near/adjacent to .... |
Cholula .......... (deserted settlement) |
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(World, North and Central America, Mexico, Puebla state) [7007137] |
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