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ID: 7008749
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008749
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tortosa (inhabited place)  Tortosa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 40 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 40.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 000 31 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 0.5167  decimal degrees

Note: SW of Tarragona city; was Moorish frontier outpost of Caliphate of Córdoba; former capital of small Moorish kingdom; taken by Ramón Berenguer IV 1148; heavily damaged in Spanish Civil War 1939.

Names:
Tortosa (preferred,C,V)
Tortoza (NA,V)
Dertosa (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Spain (nation)  ........  Spain (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Catalonia (autonomous community)  ............  Catalonia (autonomous community) (P)
Hierarchy of Tarragona (province)  ................  Tarragona (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Tortosa (inhabited place)  ....................  Tortosa (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an ancient center
city (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Dertosa..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 861
.................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12742
Tortosa..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 861
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 200
Tortoza..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 861
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12742
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -404879
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 200
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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