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ID: 7008745
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008745
Record Type:
administrative
Toro (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 41 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 41.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 005 24 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -5.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on N bank of Duero river; was established in Roman times; was meeting place of Cortez (parliament) 14th-16th cen., making the code of Toro Laws famous; noted for Romanesque & 18th-cen. architecture.
Names:
Toro
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Spain
(nation) (
P
)
............
Castile-Leon
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Zamora
(province) (
P
)
....................
Toro
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a Roman site
town (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
battlefield (
H
)
............
forces of Fernand & Isabella defeated Alfonso V of Portugal in 1476, securing the crown of Castile for Isabella
Sources and Contributors:
Toro..........
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Blue Guide: Spain (1980)
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 853
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
200
...........
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........
USBGN: Spain (1961)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Blue Guide: Spain (1980)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 853
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-404548
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
200
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
USBGN: Spain (1961)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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