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ID: 7000566
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000566
Record Type:
administrative
Kisangani (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 0.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 025 14 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 25.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by explorer HM Stanley on an island near its current location; burned by Arab slave traders; present city dates from 1898; political instability forced decline of population 1964-1967, but has since recovered.
Names:
Kisangani
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Stanleyville
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1966
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo, République Démocratique du
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tshopo
(province) (
P
)
................
Kisangani
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established 1883
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kisangani..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 482-483
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 892
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
102
Stanleyville..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 482
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 892
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 482; II, 482-483
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 892
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
102
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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