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ID: 7008745
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008745
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Toro (inhabited place)  Toro (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 41 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 41.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 005 24 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -5.4000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on N bank of Duero river; was established in Roman times; was meeting place of Cortez (parliament) 14th-16th cen., making the code of Toro Laws famous; noted for Romanesque & 18th-cen. architecture.

Names:
Toro (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of España (nation)  ........  España (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Castilla y León (autonomous community)  ............  Castilla y León (autonomous community) (P)
Hierarchy of Zamora (province)  ................  Zamora (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Toro (inhabited place)  ....................  Toro (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a Roman site
town (C)
agricultural center (C)
trade center (C)
battlefield (H)  ............  forces of Fernand & Isabella defeated Alfonso V of Portugal in 1476, securing the crown of Castile for Isabella

Sources and Contributors:
Toro..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Blue Guide: Spain (1980)
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 853
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 200
...........  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
...........  USBGN: Spain (1961)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Blue Guide: Spain (1980)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 853
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -404548
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 200
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  USBGN: Spain (1961)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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