Albuquerque
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- Names
Albuquerque
Alburquerque
New Albuquerque
San Felipe de Neri
San Francisco Xavier
San Francisco de Albuquerque
Vokekyi Leuwi
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located central New Mexico on Rio Grande River; named for Duque de Alburquerque; was a military post under Spanish & Mexicans; after Mexican War was USA military outpost 1846-1870; occupied briefly by Confederates, but was loyal to Union during Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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