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ID: 1090510
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090510
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Meru (inhabited place)  Meru (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 00 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 0.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 037 38 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 37.6333  decimal degrees

Note: Located halfway between Mount Kenya to the W & Meru National Park to the E; tribal center of Meru peoples; has road connections to the regional capital at Embu; economic production includes earthenware pottery, woven goods & agricultural tools.

Names:
Meru (preferred,C,V,English-P)
מרו (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kenya (nation)  ........  Kenya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Meru (county)  ............  Meru (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Meru (inhabited place)  ................  Meru (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
מרו..........  [IMJ]
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Meru..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 44
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 126
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 44
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 126
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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