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ID: 7008639
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008639
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Santander (inhabited place)  Santander (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 27 53 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.4647  decimal degrees
Long: 003 48 16 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.8044  decimal degrees

Note: Located on S shore of Cabo Mayor; lower town center reconstructed after destruction by spreading fire in 1941 windstorm; monuments that survived include Magdalena Palace, Gothic cathedral & library of writer & historian Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.

Names:
Santander (preferred,C,V)
Portus Victoriae (H,V)  ............ Roman colony may have been located in city's harbor

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of España (nation)  ........  España (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cantabria (autonomous community)  ............  Cantabria (autonomous community) (P)
Hierarchy of Cantabria (province)  ................  Cantabria (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Santander (inhabited place)  ....................  Santander (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient center
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
episcopal see (C)
educational center (C)  ............  University of Santander founded in 1972
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Portus Victoriae..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 429
Santander..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 429-430
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 175
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 429; X, 429-430
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -401949
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 175
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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