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ID: 7000989
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000989
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Béja (inhabited place)  Béja (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 009 13 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Former Punic settlement; became a Roman colony after defeat of Carthage; taken by Arabs around 1000; under control of Turkey in the 1500s; site of fighting during World War II between Allied & Nazi troops on highway running N to Bizerte; exports wheat.

Names:
Béja (preferred,C,V)
Beja (C,V)
Bājah (C,V)
Vacca (H,V)
Vaga (H,O)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tūnis (nation)  ........  Tūnis (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Béja (governorate)  ............  Béja (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Béja (inhabited place)  ................  Béja (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  after 841 BC
town (C)
regional capital (C)
market center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bājah..........  [VP]
..............  Britannica Book of the Year (1990) 731
Béja..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 88-89
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Beja..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 88-89
...........  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Vacca..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 88-89
..............  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Vaga..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
...........  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 88-89
...........  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9921
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1990) 731
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 88-89
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 9921
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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