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ID: 7008610
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008610
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of San Sebastián (inhabited place)  San Sebastián (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 19 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.3167  decimal degrees
Long: 001 59 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Located near border with France; given charter of rights & privileges by Sancho the Wise of Navarre ca. 1160-1190; burned during Peninsular War after Anglo-Portuguese forces captured town from French 1813; former summer residence of Spanish Royal Court.

Names:
San Sebastián (preferred,C,V)
Donostia (C,V)
Donostia-San Sebastián (NA,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Spain (nation)  ........  Spain (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Basque Provinces (autonomous community)  ............  Basque Provinces (autonomous community) (P)
Hierarchy of Guipúzcoa (province)  ................  Guipúzcoa (province) (P)
Hierarchy of San Sebastián (inhabited place)  ....................  San Sebastián (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first recorded in 1014
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
tourist center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Donostia..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 400
Donostia-San Sebastián..........  [VP]
.........................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
San Sebastián..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 400
..........................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 175
..........................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 400
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -401497
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 175
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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