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ID: 7010979
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010979
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Porto (inhabited place)  Porto (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 08 59 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.1496  decimal degrees
Long: 008 36 40 W  degrees minutes   Long: -8.6110  decimal degrees

Note: Town on ancient site, settled by Greeks or by Romans (scholars disagree). Controlled by Visigoths from ca. 540 CE; fell to Moors 716; retaken by Christians 997; birthplace of Henry the Navigator 1394; trading of port wine began 1678; captured by British troops under Duke of Wellington in 1809; is manufacturing & fishing center.

Names:
Porto (preferred,C,V)
Oporto (C,V)
Cale (H,V)
Portus Cale (H,V,Latin,U,N)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Portugal (nation)  ........  Portugal (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Porto (national district)  ............  Porto (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Porto (inhabited place)  ................  Porto (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a Roman center, perhaps earlier Greek
city (C)
district capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
episcopal see (C)
educational center (C)  ............  university founded 1911
Ancient Roman (H)
Ancient Greek (H)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cale..........  [VP]
...........  Ancient World, Archaeology (1995)
Oporto..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 12 May 2014
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Porto..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..............  Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 629-630
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 12 May 2014
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 157
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Portus Cale..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 629-630
.......................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12948
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 629-630
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12948
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 12 May 2014
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2173088
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 157
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)

 

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