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ID: 1091822
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091822
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Zinder (inhabited place)  Zinder (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 46 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 13.7667  decimal degrees
Long: 008 58 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.9667  decimal degrees

Note: Flourished as center on Trans-Saharan caravan route linking N Nigeria to coast by the 11th cen.; was fortified capital of Muslim state controlled by Bornu 16th-19th cen.; was occupied by France in 1899; is Niger's second largest town after Niamey.

Names:
Zinder (preferred,C,V)
Sinder (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Niger (nation)  ........  Niger (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Zinder (region (administrative division))  ............  Zinder (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Zinder (inhabited place)  ................  Zinder (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was a noted center by 11th cen.
town (C)
regional capital (C)
commercial center (C)
transportation center (C)  ............  for rail, road & air traffic
power production center (C)  ............  site of thermoelectric power plant
industrial center (C)  ............  major industry is peanut processing
capital (H)  ............  of Bornu state, 16th cen.; of French W Africa, until 1926

Sources and Contributors:
Sinder..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1049
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1374
Zinder..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1049
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XII, 919
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 222
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 1049
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XII, 919
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 222
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1374
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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