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ID: 1084140
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084140
Record Type:
administrative
Cavite (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 120 54 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 120.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on promontory in Manila Bay; was an early Spanish fortification; scene of defeat of Spanish fleet by Admiral Dewey in 1898; taken by Japanese 1942; today is a residential center for Manila.
Names:
Cavite
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
City of Cavite
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pilipinas
(nation) (
P
)
............
Cavite
(province) (
P
)
................
Cavite
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was chartered in 1940
city (
C
)
............
chartered 1940
suburb (
C
)
provincial capital (
H
)
defense installation (
H
)
............
most important for US navy in Asia 1898-1941
Sources and Contributors:
Cavite..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 976
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
41
City of Cavite..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
230
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 976
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
41
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
230
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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