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ID: 7014453
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014453
Record Type:
administrative
San Antonio (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 29.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 098 29 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -98.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on San Antonio river; was site of Coahuiltecan Indian village; taken by Spanish; "white Texans" seized the town during Texas Revolution; Mexicans took Alamo mission in 1836 & secularized it as a garrison; was cow town after Civil War.
Names:
San Antonio
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Antonio de Béjar
(
H
,
V
)
San Fernando
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Texas
(state) (
P
)
................
Bexar
(county) (
P
)
....................
San Antonio
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was Amerindian village; later settled by Martin de Alarcón in 1718; 3 towns merged in 1795
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
for processed foods, electronic equipment, clothing & wood products
industrial center (
C
)
............
for machinery, building materials & chemicals
educational center (
C
)
............
includes Saint Mary's University of San Antonio, Trinity University, Incarnate Word College & Saint Philip's College
cultural center (
C
)
............
includes the Alamo, Paseo del Rio (Spainish Governor's palace), Museum of Art, Institute of Texan Cultures & Tower of America
Sources and Contributors:
San Antonio..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
563
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 820
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 385
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS48054540
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
San Antonio de Béjar..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 820
San Fernando..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 820
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
563
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 820
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 385
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS48054540
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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