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ID: 7000576
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000576
Record Type:
administrative
Lubumbashi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 41 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -11.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 027 29 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Established by Belgian colonists as a settlement for copper mining; center of the attempted secession of Katanga from the republic between 1960-1963; the nation's second largest city; chief industrial center of the mining region in SE Zaïre.
Names:
Lubumbashi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lubumbaschi
(
C
,
O
)
Élisabethville
(
H
,
O
)
............
until 1966
Elisabethville
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo, République Démocratique du
(nation) (
P
)
............
Haut-Katanga
(province) (
P
)
................
Lubumbashi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1910
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Élisabethville..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 535
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 537
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Elisabethville..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
693
Lubumbaschi..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-102
Lubumbashi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 535
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 537
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
116
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
693
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 535
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 537
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
I-102
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
116
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
693
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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