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ID: 1016498
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016498
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Santiago de los Caballeros (inhabited place)  Santiago de los Caballeros (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 19 27 06 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 19.4510  decimal degrees
Long: 070 41 49 W  degrees minutes   Long: -70.6960  decimal degrees

Note: One of oldest European settlements in America, founded by Christopher Columbus or his brother, Bartolomeo; was rebuilt a few miles away after being destroyed by earthquake in 1562.

Names:
Santiago de los Caballeros (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for gentlemen (caballeros) of the Order of St. James (Santiago) who moved here in 1504
Santiago (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Dominican Republic (nation)  ........  Dominican Republic (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Santiago (province)  ............  Santiago (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Santiago de los Caballeros (inhabited place)  ................  Santiago de los Caballeros (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1494 or 1495, but rebuilt on a nearby site in 1562
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Santiago..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 433-434
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 March 2014
Santiago de los Caballeros..........  [VP Preferred]
...............................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 433-434
...............................................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 March 2014
...............................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 433-434
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 March 2014
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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