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ID: 7000356
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000356
Record Type:
administrative
Luanda (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 50 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -8.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 013 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 13.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by Paulo Dias de Novais in 16th cen. & became the administrative headquarters of the Portuguese colony in 17th cen.; center of slave trade to Brazil 1550-1850.
Names:
Luanda
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Loanda
(
C
,
V
)
São Paulo de Loanda
(
H
,
V
)
São Paulo de Luanda
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Angola
(nation) (
P
)
............
Luanda
(province) (
P
)
................
Luanda
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1576
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
administrative center (
H
)
............
of Portuguese colony 1627
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Angola
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000149]
Sources and Contributors:
Loanda..........
[
VP
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Luanda..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
116
São Paulo de Loanda..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
692
São Paulo de Luanda..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 534
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 534
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
116
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
692
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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