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ID: 7001169
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001169
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wargla (inhabited place)  Wargla (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 005 16 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.2667  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by Kharijite Muslims fleeing from religious persecution; held briefly by Turks in the 1500s; conquered by French 1853; present town constructed to the S around Ft. Lutaud after 1928; trades in basketry, livestock & woolen carpets; has an airport.

Names:
Wargla (preferred,C,V)  ............ after 1981
Ouargla (C,V)
Warqla (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-Jazā'ir (nation)  ........  Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ouargla (province)  ............  Ouargla (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Wargla (inhabited place)  ................  Wargla (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled ca. 1000
town (C)
department capital (C)
oasis (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ouargla..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 9
Wargla..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 9
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-188
Warqla..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 9
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-188
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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