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ID: 7000470
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000470
Record Type:
administrative
Ségou (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 25 51 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.4317
decimal degrees
Long: 006 12 54 W
degrees minutes
Long: -6.2157
decimal degrees
Note:
Prosperous in the 17th-18th cen. as the first capital of the Bambara kingdom; taken in 1861 by al-Hājj ʻUmar, leader of the Tukulor holy war; became French headquarters for Niger River development in 1932; today is a trade center.
Names:
Ségou
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Segu
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mali
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ségou
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Ségou
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Bambara kingdom, 17th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Ségou..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 845
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 607
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
179
Segu..........
[
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 845
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 845
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 607
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 December 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
179
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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