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ID: 1084755
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084755
Record Type:
administrative
Zamboanga City (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 55 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 122 05 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 122.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as fortress to protect Christian settlers; became noted town & chief market of S Philippines during US tenure; served as Japanese defense headquarters during World War II; taken by US troops in 1945.
Names:
Zamboanga City
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Zamboanga
(
C
,
V
)
City of Zamboanga
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Philippines
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zamboanga
(special city) (
P
)
................
Zamboanga City
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Spaniards, 1635
city (
C
)
............
established 1940
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
City of Zamboanga..........
[
VP
]
................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1370-1371
Zamboanga..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 891
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
221
Zamboanga City..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 15 April 2015
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 891
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
221
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1370-1371
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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