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ID: 1016891
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016891
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Spanish Town (inhabited place)  Spanish Town (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 17 59 28 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 17.9910  decimal degrees
Long: 076 57 27 W  degrees minutes   Long: -76.9570  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Rio Cobre; processing center for crops grown in fertile Liguanea Plain; landmarks include St Catherine's Cathedral of 1655 & 17th-cen. Eagle House; National Repository houses documents dating to early English settlement.

Names:
Spanish Town (preferred,C,V)
Santiago de La Vega (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Jamaica (nation)  ........  Jamaica (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Middlesex (county)  ............  Middlesex (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint Catherine (parish (political))  ................  Saint Catherine (parish (political)) (P)
Hierarchy of Spanish Town (inhabited place)  ....................  Spanish Town (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1525
city (C)
commercial center (C)
national capital (H)  ............  from 1692-1872

Sources and Contributors:
Santiago de La Vega..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 72
...................................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 March 2014
Spanish Town..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 884
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 72
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 March 2014
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 187
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 884
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 72
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 March 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 187
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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