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ID: 7011005
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011005
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Santarém (inhabited place)  Santarém (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 14 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.2333  decimal degrees
Long: 008 41 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -8.6833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Tagus river; was a major fortress during medieval wars between Christians & Moors; finally captured by Christians 1147; kaolin mined near the city is used in production of china & pottery; site of municipal museum of sculpture.

Names:
Santarém (preferred,C,V)
Praesidium Julium (H,V)  ............ renamed by Julius Caesar
Scalabis (H,V)  ............ original Roman

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Portugal (nation)  ........  Portugal (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Santarém (national district)  ............  Santarém (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Santarém (inhabited place)  ................  Santarém (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a Roman center
city (C)
district capital (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Praesidium Julium..........  [VP]
................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 430
Santarém..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 430
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 12 May 2014
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 175
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Scalabis..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 430
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 430
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 12 May 2014
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2175487
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 175
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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