40-488: TGN may refer to: Tarragona , abbreviation of the city of Tarragona, in Catalonia Thai Global Network , a Thai satellite television channel Texas Government Newsletter , for college students Tyco Global Network, fiber optic network by Tyco International Trans Golgi network in biology IEEE 802.11n Task Group N Thyroglobulin ,
80-693: A zoological treatise on the animals of the Bible was more than a Christianized Pliny's Natural History nor just an expansion of Conrad Gesner's Historiae animalium . Bochart instanced the Arabic naturalists, like al-Damîrî and al-Qazwini , none of whose work had appeared in European print before. His etymologies follow the fanciful tradition inherited from Classical Antiquity and passed to medieval culture through Isidore of Seville . In 1652 Christina of Sweden invited him to Stockholm , where he studied
120-533: A distance of 20.0 km (12.4 mi), whilst stage 26 links southwards to Cambrils , a distance of 28.1 km (17.5 mi). Tarragona contains a number of small bars, restaurants, and cafes serving tapas and sandwiches, and local seafood and Catalan dishes like " pa amb tomàquet " or "neules i torrons". Many such outlets are found in the historic centre, including those at the Plaça de la Font, Plaça del Rei and Plaça del Fòrum. The neighborhood of El Serrallo, at
160-405: A fourth wing. Benito Villamitjana built a new seminary behind the cathedral in 1886, in the courtyard of which stands the old chapel of Sant Pau. Pope Leo XIII raised this to the rank of a pontifical university. 50 km (31.07 mi) north of the city is Poblet Monastery , founded in 1151 by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona , which was used for sepultures of the kings . Tarragona
200-633: A protein Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names TGN (AM) radio station, Guatemala Latrobe Regional Airport , IATA airport code "TGN" Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title TGN . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=TGN&oldid=1128966895 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
240-521: A quarry after the fall of the Western Roman Empire , and but few vestiges of it now remain. A circus c. 450 m (1,480 ft) long, was built over in the area now called Plaça de la Font , though portions of it are still to be traced. Throughout the town Latin , and even apparently Phoenician , inscriptions on the stones of the houses mark the material used for buildings in the town. Two ancient monuments, at some little distance from
280-621: A small Franco-Italian garrison led by Brigadier general Antoine Marc Augustin Bertoletti . Murray was subsequently removed from command for his indecisive and contradictory leadership. The Anglo-Spanish forces finally captured Tarragona on 19 August. During the Spanish Civil War , Tarragona was in the hands of the Second Spanish Republic until captured by Franco's Nationalist troops on 15 January 1939 during
320-745: Is Pau Ricomà . The opening session in which the mayor is invested is traditionally held at the Saló de Plens . Since the first democratic election after the Francoist dictatorship , Tarragona has had four democratically elected mayors: The local is the body formed by the elected councillors of the Ajuntament . The plenary meetings ( Ple ) are held at the Saló de Plens. It is formed by the municipal councillors, elected through closed party list proportional representation and 27 councillors are currently elected on
360-511: Is described as producing good wine and flax . The city also minted coins. An inscribed stone base for a now lost statue of Tiberius Claudius Candidus was found in Tarragona during the nineteenth century. The 24-line Latin inscription describes the governor and senator's career as an ally of the future Roman emperor Septimius Severus , who fought in the civil war following the assassination of Commodus in 192 AD. This important marble block
400-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tarragona Tarragona ( Catalan: [tərəˈɣonə] , Spanish: [taraˈɣona] ; Latin : Tarraco ) is a coastal city and municipality in Catalonia ( Spain ). It is the capital and largest town of Tarragonès county, the Camp de Tarragona region and the province of Tarragona . Geographically, it
440-642: Is home to one of the largest ports in Spain, which is an export hub for the Spanish car industry. Much of its economic activity comes from a number of chemical industries located west of the city. Among other educational institutions, it also features the Rovira i Virgili University . The most significant living heritage is the Popular Retinue, a great parade of dances, bestiary and spoken dances, as well as
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#1732766230949480-709: Is located on the Costa Daurada area on the Mediterranean shore. During the period of the Roman Empire , it was one of the most prominent cities of the Iberian Peninsula , as the capital, successively, of the Roman provinces of Hispania Citerior and Hispania Tarraconensis . The Archaeological Complex of Tàrraco is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . One Catalan legend holds that Tarragona
520-528: Is unusual for the Mediterranean climate. Winters are mildly cool and summers are warm and sultry, while the wettest seasons are spring and autumn, which receive around 54 to 77 mm (2.1 to 3.0 in) in May and September. Tarragona was also a candidate to be the Spanish representative as European Capital of Culture in 2016. The local mayor is elected by the members of the plenary from among its members
560-588: The Arabic manuscripts in the queen's possession. He was accompanied by Pierre Daniel Huet , afterwards Bishop of Avranches . On his return to Caen he was received into the academy of that city. Bochart was a man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the principal Oriental languages , including Hebrew , Syriac , and Arabic ; and at an advanced age he wished to learn Ethiopic . Bochart's examples and quotations provided challenges to London typographers , who created typefaces to reproduce them. He
600-592: The Catalonia Offensive . The Roman ruins of Tarraco have been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . Part of the bases of large Cyclopean walls near the Cuartel de Pilatos are thought to pre-date the Romans. The building just mentioned, a prison in the 19th century, is said to have been the palace of Augustus. The second century Tarragona Amphitheatre near the seashore was extensively used as
640-754: The Crown of Castile , it remained a part of the Crown of Aragon until the foundation of the Spanish Empire in 1516. During the Reapers' War , Tarragona was captured by Catalan insurgents with French support in 1641, but it was retaken by Spanish troops in 1644. It was captured by allied Portuguese, Dutch, and British troops in 1705 during the War of the Spanish Succession and remained in their hands until
680-667: The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. During the war, the Catalans supported the unsuccessful claim of Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen against the victorious Bourbon Duke of Anjou , who became Philip V of Spain . He signed the Nueva Planta decrees , which abolished the Crown of Aragon , as well as the Catalan institutions and prohibited the administrative use of Catalan language on 16 January 1716. The Jewish community in Tarragona
720-571: The resort of Salou and the PortAventura World ( PortAventura Park , the most visited theme park in Spain, Ferrari Land and also the PortAventura Caribe Aquatic Park ). The city is served by Camp de Tarragona high-speed railway station , and is located a few kilometres away from Reus Airport , which offers low-cost charter-flights (over a million passengers per year). Reus is the second city of
760-599: The French besiegers with cannon fire and transported large numbers of reinforcements into the city by sea. Nevertheless, Suchet's troops stormed into the defences and killed or captured almost all the defenders. It became a subprefecture centre in Bouches-de-l'Èbre department of French empire. In the second siege of Tarragona (3–11 June 1813), an overwhelming Anglo-Spanish force under the command of Lieutenant general John Murray, 8th Baronet failed to wrest Tarragona from
800-767: The Jews." After the Christian reconquest, the Jews of Tarragona faced institutional persecution and anti-semitic restrictions until the community's destruction in 1492, during the expulsion of the Jews . During the Peninsular War , in the first siege of Tarragona from 5 May to 29 June 1811, Louis-Gabriel Suchet 's Army of Aragon of the First French Empire laid siege to a Spanish garrison led by Lieutenant General Juan de Contreras . A British naval squadron commanded by Admiral Edward Codrington harassed
840-632: The Scipios"; but there is no authority for assuming that they were buried here. Other Roman buildings include: The city is also home to the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona . The seminary of Sant Pau and Santa Tecla was founded in 1570 by the cardinal archbishop, Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta , and was the first to comply with the decrees of the Council of Trent . In 1858 Archbishop José Domingo Costa y Borrás built
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#1732766230949880-665: The Tarragona area (101,767 inhabitants in 2006), known by its commercial activity and for being the place where the architect Antoni Gaudí was born. The city hosted the 2018 Mediterranean Games , one year later than planned, because of political and economical instability. Tarragona is one of the World Heritage Journeys in the European Union. Tourism is focused on the main sites of Mercat Central de Tarragona (Central Market of Tarragona), La Rambla Nova (the main shopping street), El Serrallo fishing village,
920-455: The basis of the population of the municipality. Councillors are grouped in municipal groups on the basis of their political filiation. It has a government commission ( Comissió de Govern ; also Junta de Govern or Junta de Gobierno ) is formed by the mayor, the deputy mayors, and a number of appointed councillors. Tarragona is twinned with: Tarragona had partnerships with: Samuel Bochart Samuel Bochart (30 May 1599 – 16 May 1667)
960-482: The building of human towers called castells . These cultural traditional are especially visible during the Santa Tecla Festival , and are so popular in Tarragona that they have their own home called the "Casa de la Festa", Festivities House, which can be visited all year. A number of beaches, some awarded a Blue Flag designation, line the Mediterranean coast near the city. Tarragona is located near
1000-569: The capital ( conventus iuridicus ) of the province named after it, Hispania Tarraconensis . Augustus wintered at Tarraco after his Cantabrian campaign, and bestowed many marks of honour on the city, among which were its honorary titles of Colonia Victrix Togata and Colonia Julia Victrix Tarraconensis . According to Mela, it was the richest town on the coast, and Strabo represents its population as equal to that of Carthago Nova (now Cartagena ). Its fertile plain and sunny shores are celebrated by Martial and other poets; and its neighbourhood
1040-640: The control of the Almoravid dynasty between 1110 and 1117. It was taken by the County of Barcelona in 1117. From 1129 to 1173 Tarragona was the capital of the short lived Principality of Tarragona , under the Norman -influence. After the dynastic union of Aragon and Barcelona , it was part of the Principality of Catalonia within the Crown of Aragon from 1164 to 1714. After dynastic union of Aragon and
1080-660: The cultural contexts of Greek and Roman societies, without understanding of which they could never be fully understood. Thus Bochart stands at the beginning of a discipline of the history of ideas that provides the modern context for all textual studies. Bochart was born in Rouen . He was for many years a pastor of a Protestant church at Caen , and also studied in Oxford , where he was tutor to Wentworth Dillon, later Earl of Roscommon . Bochart's Hierozoicon sive bipartitum opus de animalibus sacrae scripturae (2 vols., London 1663),
1120-406: The day the new municipal corporation is formed after the local election. The officeholder has a mandate for the 4-year duration of the elected body. If the mayor leaves office ahead of time a new voting may take place among the plenary members in order to invest a new mayor (meanwhile, another local councillor, conventionally the first deputy mayor may act as acting mayor). Since 15 June 2019 the mayor
1160-490: The exact connection of Tarragona to Kesse remains uncertain. Scholars such as William Smith suggest that the city may have been established by the Phoenicians , who referred to it as Tarchon . According to Samuel Bochart , signifies a citadel. The moniker likely stemmed from its location atop a high rock, approximately 75–90 m (250–300 ft) above sea level; earning it the epithet arce potens Tarraco . It
1200-549: The harbour, specialises in seafood cuisine. Chartreuse liqueur is a famous local drink of Tarragona. Originally created in 1605, it was considered by monks to be an “elixir for long life”. It is produced in yellow, with an alcohol content of 40º, as well as green, with a content of 55º. Between 1903 and 1989, the Chartreuse liqueur made by the French Carthusian Monks was distilled in Tarragona, following
1240-651: The main road along the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. During the Roman Republic , the city was fortified and much enlarged as a Roman colony by the brothers Publius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus , who converted it into a fortress and arsenal against the Carthaginians . The city was first named Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco and was capital of the province of Hispania Citerior . Subsequently, it became
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1280-490: The monks' expulsion from France. Chartreuse is now a key part of the Feast of Santa Tecla. This traditional festival of national interest celebrates the patroness saint of the city. The climate of Tarragona can be described as a Mediterranean climate ( Köppen Csa ) bordering on a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ). Despite its location in the Mediterranean region, August tends to have more precipitation than February, which
1320-415: The surrounding beaches of the golden coast, the key plazas (Plaça de la Font, Plaça del Fòrum, Plaça del Rei), Balcó del Mediterrani, Praetorium and Roman Circus, Roman Amphitheatre, Model of Roman Tarraco, and the cathedral. The GR 92 long-distance footpath, which roughly follows the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a staging point at Tarragona. Stage 25 links northwards to Torredembarra ,
1360-407: The town, have, however, fared rather better. The first of these is Les Ferreres Aqueduct , which spans a valley about 4 km (2 mi) north of the city. It is 217 m (712 ft) in length, and the loftiest arches, of which there are two tiers, are 26 m (85 ft) high. There is a monument about 6 km (4 mi) along the coast road east of the city, commonly called the "Tower of
1400-484: Was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet . His two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan ( Caen 1646) exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis . Bochart was one of the several generations of antiquaries who expanded upon the basis Renaissance humanists had laid down, complementing their revolutionary hermeneutics by setting classical texts more firmly within
1440-504: Was established during the Roman era, making it one of the most ancient Jewish communities in Spain. A laver , possibly used by the Jews for ritual purification found in Tarragona bears the inscription "peace over Israel, over ourselves, and our children." Coins with Hebrew inscriptions have also been found, dating to the Visigoth period. During Muslim rule, Jews in Tarragona prospered; Muhammad al-Idrisi nicknamed Tarragona "the city of
1480-527: Was named for Tarraho , eldest son of Tubal in c. 2407 BC; another (derived from Strabo and Megasthenes ) attributes the name to ' Tearcon the Ethiopian', a seventh-century BC pharaoh who campaigned in Spain. The real founding date of Tarragona is unknown. The city's origins trace back to a possible Iberian settlement known as Kesse or Kosse, named after the local Iberian tribe, the Cossetans. However,
1520-839: Was purchased by the British Museum in 1994. After the demise of the Western Roman Empire , the city was captured by the Vandals and the Visigoths . The Visigothic Kingdom 's rule of Tarracona was ended by the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 714. It was an important border city of the Caliphate of Córdoba between 750 and 1013. After the demise of the Caliphate, it was part of the Taifa of Zaragoza between 1013 and 1110 and under
1560-667: Was seated on the river Sulcis or Tulcis (modern Francolí ), on a bay of the Mare Internum (Mediterranean), between the Pyrenees and the River Iberus (modern Ebro ). Livy mentions a portus Tarraconis ; and according to Eratosthenes it had a naval station or roads ( Ναύσταθμον ); but Artemidorus Ephesius says with more probability that it had none, and scarcely even an anchoring place; and Strabo himself refers to it as "harbourless" ( ἀλίμενος ). Tarraco lies on
1600-510: Was so absorbed in his favorite study, that he saw Phoenician origins even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works. His correspondence on theological subjects, carried on with Cappellus , Salmasius and Vossius was included in his posthumous collected works, and so achieved a wide distribution. He died of apoplexy , aged 67, in the academy of Caen during an impassioned debate with Huet on
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