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ID: 7005984
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005984
Record Type:
administrative
Managua (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 12.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 086 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Was flourishing pre-Columbian center; was important Spanish colonial center; rebuilt after earthquakes in 1931 and 1972; site of heavy combat and general strikes against Somoza government 1978-1979.
Names:
Managua
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nicaragua
(nation) (
P
)
............
Managua
(department) (
P
)
................
Managua
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
area was inhabited by 4th mill. BC
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
since 1857
department capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Nicaragua
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7005562]
Sources and Contributors:
Managua..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
7:756-757
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
New World, Archaeology (1995)
K
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
120
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 756-757; 7:756-757
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
New World, Archaeology (1995)
K
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
120
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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