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ID: 7014564
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014564
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Taos (inhabited place)  Taos (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 105 34 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -105.5667  decimal degrees

Note: Located N New Mexico in Sangre de Cristo mountains; in 1680 Taos & other Pueblo Indians combined in successful Pueblo Revolt against Spain; in revolt of 1849 US governor Charles Brent was killed.

Names:
Taos (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of New Mexico (state)  ............  New Mexico (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Taos (county)  ................  Taos (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Taos (inhabited place)  ....................  Taos (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an early Spanish settlement
town (C)
county seat (C)
tourist center (C)  ............  for skiing & outdoor recreation, Amerindian ceremonial dances & fiestas & for quaint Taos & Taos Pueblo architecture & arts
artists' colony (C)  ............  for writers & painters inspired by novelist DH Lawrence (whose ranch remains from 1920s) & for Amerindian arts & crafts
trade center (C)  ............  since days of Santa Fe Trail (1821-1880)

Sources and Contributors:
Taos..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 915
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 552
...........  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS35022934
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1187
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 915
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 552
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS35022934
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1187
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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