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ID: 7008639
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008639
Record Type:
administrative
Santander (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 004 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on S shore of Cabo Mayor; lower town center reconstructed after destruction by spreading fire in 1941 windstorm; monuments that survived include Magdalena Palace, Gothic cathedral & library of writer & historian Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo.
Names:
Santander
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Portus Victoriae
(
H
,
V
)
............
Roman colony may have been located in city's harbor
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Spain
(nation) (
P
)
............
Cantabria
(autonomous community) (
P
)
................
Cantabria
(province) (
P
)
....................
Santander
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient center
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
University of Santander founded in 1972
Sources and Contributors:
Portus Victoriae..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 429
Santander..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 429-430
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
175
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 429; X, 429-430
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
175
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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