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ID: 7007572
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007572
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Calahorra (inhabited place)  Calahorra (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 42 18 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 42.3000  decimal degrees
Long: 001 58 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.9667  decimal degrees

Note: SE of Logroño city; known for its resistance to Roman general Pompey 76-72 BC; birthplace of Roman rhetorician Quintilian 1st cen.; controlled by Moors 9th-10th cen.; captured by Christian king of Navarre 1054; Roman ruins lie near the town.

Names:
Calahorra (preferred,C,V)
Calagurris (H,V)  ............ original Celtiberian
Calagurris Nassica (H,V)  ............ ancient Roman

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Spain (nation)  ........  Spain (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of La Rioja (autonomous community)  ............  La Rioja (autonomous community) (P)
Hierarchy of Rioja, La (province)  ................  Rioja, La (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Calahorra (inhabited place)  ....................  Calahorra (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient center
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Calagurris..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 731
Calagurris Nassica..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 731
Calahorra..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 731
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 37
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 731
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -374956
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 37
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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