Lima
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- Names
Lima
Ciudad de los Reyes
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located just inland from central Peruvian coast; there were major pre-Incan and Incan urban centers in area; Spanish city was founded in 16th cen.; flourished as capital of viceroyalty of Peru; destroyed by earthquake in 1746, rebuilt in opulent fashion.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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