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ID: 1016587
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016587
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Saint George's (inhabited place)  Saint George's (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 12 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 12.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 061 44 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -61.7333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on SW coast of the island, on a small peninsula; harbor considered one of most beautiful in W Indies; founded by French settlers; was capital of the former British Windward Islands; economy driven by tourism & production of sugar & rum.

Names:
Saint George's (preferred,C,V)
St. George's (C,V)
Saint George (C,V)
Saint Georges (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Grenada (nation)  ........  Grenada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint George (parish (political))  ............  Saint George (parish (political)) (P)
Hierarchy of Saint George's (inhabited place)  ................  Saint George's (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1650 as a French settlement, site moved in 1705
town (C)
national capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)
tourist center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Grenada .......... (nation)
..................  (World, North and Central America) [7004771]

Sources and Contributors:
Saint George..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 805
Saint George's..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) 1634
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 318
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 170
Saint Georges..........  [VP]
..........................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1048
St. George's..........  [VP]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 554
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 554
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 805
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961) 1634
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 318
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 170
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1048
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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