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ID: 1016891
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016891
Record Type:
administrative
Spanish Town (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 59 28 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.9910
decimal degrees
Long: 076 57 27 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.9570
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Rio Cobre; processing center for crops grown in fertile Liguanea Plain; landmarks include St Catherine's Cathedral of 1655 & 17th-cen. Eagle House; National Repository houses documents dating to early English settlement.
Names:
Spanish Town
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Santiago de La Vega
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Jamaica
(nation) (
P
)
............
Middlesex
(county) (
P
)
................
Saint Catherine
(parish (political)) (
P
)
....................
Spanish Town
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1525
city (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
from 1692-1872
Sources and Contributors:
Santiago de La Vega..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 72
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 March 2014
Spanish Town..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 884
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 72
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 March 2014
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
187
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 884
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 72
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 March 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
187
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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