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ID: 1087365
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087365
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Arziw (inhabited place)  Arziw (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 000 19 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient Roman town; Almohad port 12th cen.; visited by merchants from Italy in the 1300s & 1400s; seized & fortified by Turks 16th cen.; taken by French 1833; annexed to France through treaty 1837; landing spot for Allied troops on November 8, 1942.

Names:
Arziw (preferred,C,V)
Arzew (C,V)
Arzeu (C,V)
Arsenaria (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Oran (province)  ............  Oran (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Arziw (inhabited place)  ................  Arziw (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since ancient Rome
town (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Arsenaria..........  [VP]
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 80
Arzeu..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
Arzew..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
Arziw..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-9
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-9
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 80
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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