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ID: 7014457
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014457
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of San Jose (inhabited place)  San Jose (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 20 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.3333  decimal degrees
Long: 121 53 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -121.8833  decimal degrees

Note: Located in Santa Clara Valley; became trade depot for local crops & mining equipment; site of 1st state legislative assembly in 1849; manufactures wine, electronics, aerospace equipment & auto parts; site of California State University, San Jose (1857).

Names:
San Jose (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of California (state)  ............  California (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Santa Clara (county)  ................  Santa Clara (county) (P)
Hierarchy of San Jose (inhabited place)  ....................  San Jose (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a Spanish military supply base named San José de Guadalupe, by José Joaquin Moraga in 1777
city (C)  ............  incorporated in 1850
county seat (C)  ............  since 1850
agricultural center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
university center (C)
state capital (H)  ............  from 1849-1852

Sources and Contributors:
San Jose..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 391
.................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6032520
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 391
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6032520
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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