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ID: 1089599
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089599
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Abomey (inhabited place)  Abomey (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 07 10 58 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 7.1820  decimal degrees
Long: 001 59 28 E  degrees minutes   Long: 1.9910  decimal degrees

Note: Was established as capital of the Abomey (later Dahomey, then Benin) kingdom by King Aklin; was center of slave trade with Europe along the Slave Coast; captured & burned in 1892 by the French, who rebuilt it in 1905 with rail connections to the coast.

Names:
Abomey (preferred,C,V)
Abome (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Benin (nation)  ........  Benin (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Zou (department)  ............  Zou (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Abomey (inhabited place)  ................  Abomey (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded ca. 1625
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)
national capital (H)  ............  of Abomey & Dahomey, 17th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Abome..........  [VP]
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 April 2014
Abomey..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 3
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 April 2014
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 6
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 3
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 3
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 April 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 6
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 3
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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