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ID: 1016473
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016473
Record Type:
administrative
Concepción de la Vega (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 13 19 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 19.2210
decimal degrees
Long: 070 31 46 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.5290
decimal degrees
Note:
Concepción fortress was built by Christopher Columbus in 1494, and the town was built at its base by his brother, Bartolomeo; town was moved to the bank of Camú river after an earthquake in 1564.
Names:
Concepción de la Vega
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
La Vega
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Dominican Republic
(nation) (
P
)
............
La Vega
(province) (
P
)
................
Concepción de la Vega
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1495, moved in 1564
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Concepción de la Vega..........
[
VP Preferred
]
......................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 10 March 2014
......................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
La Vega..........
[
VP
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
587
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 77
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 10 March 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
587
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 77
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 10 March 2014
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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