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ID: 2104495
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2104495
Record Type:
administrative
Goliad (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 28 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 28.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 097 23 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -97.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as a Spanish mission & presidio; noted center in revolt by Texas against Mexico; in 1836 surrendered to the Mexicans, but many prisoners were shot; town thus became (with the Alamo) the battle cry for victorious Texans at San Jacinto.
Names:
Goliad
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
La Bahia
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
Texas
(state) (
P
)
................
Goliad
(county) (
P
)
....................
Goliad
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Spanish missionaries in 1749
town (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Goliad..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS48032556
La Bahia..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS48032556
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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