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ID: 7007654
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007654
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of El Ferrol (inhabited place)  El Ferrol (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 008 14 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -8.2333  decimal degrees

Note: Selected by King Philip V to be site of naval base 1726; shipbuilding yards established by Ferdinand VI 1746-1759; fortifications built & royal naval arsenal set up by Charles III 1769-1774.

Names:
El Ferrol (preferred,C,V)  ............ shorter name came to be favored 1980s
Ferrol (C,V)
El Ferrol del Caudillo (H,V)  ............ after 1939 in reference to birthplace of Spanish caudillo (head) General Francisco Franco
Ferrol del Caudillo (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Spain (nation)  ........  Spain (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Galicia (autonomous community)  ............  Galicia (autonomous community) (P)
Hierarchy of Coruña, A (province)  ................  Coruña, A (province) (P)
Hierarchy of El Ferrol (inhabited place)  ....................  El Ferrol (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was developed in 18th cen.
city (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
El Ferrol..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 412
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
El Ferrol del Caudillo..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.........................................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.........................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 412
.........................................  Espasa: Enciclopedia universal (1907)
.........................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.........................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.........................................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Ferrol..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 343
Ferrol del Caudillo..........  [VP]
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 412
..................  Espasa: Enciclopedia universal (1907)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -380667
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 343
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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