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ID: 1016850
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016850
Record Type:
administrative
Trujillo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 55 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 086 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Flourished in early 1600s; was ravaged by Dutch pirates in 1643; remained in ruins until Galicians settled here in 1787; American military adventurer William Walker was shot nearby in 1860; exports bananas, coconuts, mahogany & hides.
Names:
Trujillo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
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Honduras
(nation) (
P
)
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Colón
(department) (
P
)
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Trujillo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1524
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
episcopal see (
H
)
............
from 1531 until it was moved to Comayagua 1561
Sources and Contributors:
Trujillo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 2
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
201
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 2
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
201
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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