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ID: 1094975
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094975
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Menzel Bourguiba (inhabited place)  Menzel Bourguiba (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 37 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 37.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 009 49 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 9.8167  decimal degrees

Note: Established around naval installation & dockyard during French occupation; in World War II occupied by American troops on May 7, 1943; renamed after the nation's first president Habib Bourguiba; French evacuated navy base in 1963; has several industries.

Names:
Menzel Bourguiba (preferred,C,V)  ............ renamed 1956
Manzil Bū Ruqaybah (C,V)
Menzel-Bourguiba (C,V)
Ferryville (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tunisia (nation)  ........  Tunisia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Bizerte (governorate)  ............  Bizerte (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Menzel Bourguiba (inhabited place)  ................  Menzel Bourguiba (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ferryville..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 589
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 803
Manzil Bū Ruqaybah..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 803
Menzel Bourguiba..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 589
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 803
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 124
Menzel-Bourguiba..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 803
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 589
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 803
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 124
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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