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ID: 7000399
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000399
Record Type:
administrative
Maputo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 57 55 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -25.9650
decimal degrees
Long: 032 35 21 E
degrees minutes
Long: 32.5890
decimal degrees
Note:
One of most important ports in East Africa, & the commercial & industrial center of Mozambique; grew up around a Portuguese fortress completed in 1787; industries include brewing, shipbuilding, fish canning, ironworking, textile manufacture.
Names:
Maputo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
1976
Lourenco Marques
(
C
,
U
,
English-P
)
לורנסו מרקס
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Lourenço Marques
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Moçambique
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maputo, Cidade de
(special city) (
P
)
................
Maputo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first explored in 1544; town created in 1887
city (
C
)
............
created 1887
national capital (
C
)
............
superseded town of Mozambique as the capital of Portuguese East Africa in 1907
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
college center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Moçambique
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000180]
Sources and Contributors:
לורנסו מרקס..........
[
IMJ
]
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Lourenço Marques..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
348
Lourenco Marques..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
.............................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Maputo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 808
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
121
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 808
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
121
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
348
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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