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ID: 7010413 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010413			Record Type: administrative

Madrid (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 24 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 40.4000 decimal degrees
Long: 003 41 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -3.6833 decimal degrees

Note: Was Moorish fortress; taken by Ramiro II of León in 932 CE; captured again from Moors by Alfonso VI of Castile in 1083; rapid expansion under Bourbon kings, particularly Charles III in 18th cen.; under French occupation during Peninsular War 1808-1812.

Names:

Madrid (preferred,C,V)
Majerit (H,V)	............	name recorded first in AD 932, when Christians razed the town's walls

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

....

Europe (continent) (P)

........

Spain (nation) (P)

............

Comunidad de Madrid (autonomous community) (P)

................

Madrid (province) (P)

....................

Madrid (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	site was inhabited in prehistoric times, the early modern town (medina) grew up around a Moorish castle (alcazar)
city (C)
national capital (C)	............	since 1561
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
transportation center (C)
university center (C)

Related geographic places:

capital of ....	Spain .......... (nation)
..................	(World, Europe) [1000095]

Sources and Contributors:

Madrid..........	[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) 2:548
.................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 7:660
.................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 118
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Majerit..........	[VP]
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIII, 376-377

Subject: .....	[BHA, FDA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 548; 2:548
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 660; XXIII, 376-377; 7:660
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -390625
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 118
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)

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