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ID: 7010855
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010855
Record Type:
administrative
Funchal (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 016 54 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -16.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Third largest Portuguese city; located on S coast of Madeira island; held by Spanish 1580-1640; under control of British in early 19th cen.; exports wine, wickerwork, embroidery, fruit, fish & dairy products; has an international airport.
Names:
Funchal
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Portugal
(nation) (
P
)
............
Madeira
(autonomous region) (
P
)
................
Madeira, Ilha da
(island) (
P
)
....................
Funchal
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Portuguese navigator João Gonçalves Zarco 1421
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
communications center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Funchal..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
216
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 49
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 9 May 2014
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
216
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 49
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 9 May 2014
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2166199
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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