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ID: 1092232
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092232
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Opobo (inhabited place)  Opobo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 04 35 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 4.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 007 34 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.5667  decimal degrees

Note: Served as collecting point for slaves 19th cen.; Jubo Jubogha, former slave, founded Kingdom of Opobo 1870 & made area master of eastern Niger Delta oil-palm trade; British made trading post 1887; trades in yams, cassava, fish, palm produce & corn.

Names:
Opobo (preferred,C,V)
Ikot Abasi (C,V)
Egwanga (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Nigeria (nation)  ........  Nigeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Akwa Ibom (state)  ............  Akwa Ibom (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Opobo (inhabited place)  ................  Opobo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 19th cen.
town (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Egwanga..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 256
Ikot Abasi..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 256
Opobo..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 145
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 256
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 145
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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