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ID: 1091256
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091256

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sikasso (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mali (nation)  ........  Mali (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sikasso (region (administrative division))  ............  Sikasso (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Sikasso (inhabited place)  ................  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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