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ID: 1091256
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091256
Record Type:
administrative
Sikasso (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 11.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 005 38 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -5.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Assailed by the Muslim chief Samory in the last two decades of the 19th cen.; captured by France in 1898; subsequently became part of French West Africa; center for the manufacture of textiles & cotton ginning; connected by road with Bamako.
Names:
Sikasso
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mali
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sikasso
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Sikasso
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1870s
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
of Kénédougou, 19th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Sikasso..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 863
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 799
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
183
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 863
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 799
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
183
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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