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ID: 7010861
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010861
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Leiria (inhabited place)  Leiria (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 39 44 52 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 39.7477  decimal degrees
Long: 008 48 18 W  degrees minutes   Long: -8.8050  decimal degrees

Note: Taken by Moors early 700s; recaptured by Afonso I 1135; first printing press in Portugal established in town 1466; noted for a Romanesque church, Moorish castle & Renaissance cathedral; products of surrounding agricultural region include olives & corn.

Names:
Leiria (preferred,C,V)
Leira (C,V)
Collippo (H,V)  ............ original Roman

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Portugal (nation)  ........  Portugal (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Leira, Distrito de (national district)  ............  Leira, Distrito de (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Leiria (inhabited place)  ................  Leiria (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a Roman center
town (C)
district capital (C)
episcopal see (C)
trade center (C)
publishing center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Collippo..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 255-256
Leira..........  [VP]
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 30 April 2014
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Leiria..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 255-256
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 30 April 2014
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 255-256
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 30 April 2014
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2167877
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)

 

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