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ID: 7000809
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000809
Record Type:
administrative
Johannesburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 10 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 028 02 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Occupied by British forces during Boer War in 1900; the nation's largest city & center of its gold-mining industry; produces chemicals, textiles & leather products; located at junction of roads from major South African towns.
Names:
Johannesburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
display
,
English-P
)
יוהנסבורג
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gauteng
(province) (
P
)
................
Johannesburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1886
city (
C
)
............
created 1928
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Rising Star cave system
.......... (abandoned dwelling)
..............................
(World, Africa, South Africa, Gauteng) [8698130]
Sources and Contributors:
יוהנסבורג..........
[
IMJ
]
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Johannesburg..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Embassy of South Africa (1994)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 565-566
.......................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.......................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
93
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
574
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Embassy of South Africa (1994)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 565-566
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
93
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
574
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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