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ID: 7005440
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005440
Record Type:
administrative
Petrópolis (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 22 30 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -22.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 043 06 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -43.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
Name honors Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro; city flourished under reigns of Dom Pedro I & João VI of Portugal; treaty with Bolivia exchanged land for construction of Madeira-Mamoré railway.
Names:
Petrópolis
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
,
Portuguese-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Rio de Janeiro
(state) (
P
)
................
Petrópolis
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Bavarian immigrants in 1845
city (
C
)
state capital (
H
)
............
from 1894 until 1903
Sources and Contributors:
Petrópolis..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 346
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-661457
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
152
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 346
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-661457
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
152
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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