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ID: 7001637
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001637
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ciskei (former administrative division)  Ciskei (former administrative division)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 50 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -32.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 027 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Former independent black homeland located in non-contiguous sections within the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa; independence was not recognized internationally; most of inhabitants are Xhosa; the territory now makes up Eastern Cape province.

Names:
Ciskei (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)  ............ meaning "this side of the Kei river" in the local language
Xhosa-Ciskei (C,V)
Xosa-Ciskei (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ciskei (former administrative division)  ............  Ciskei (former administrative division) (P)

Place Types:
former administrative division (preferred, C)
general region (C)
autonomous area (H)  ............  self-governing from 1981 until it was reabsorbed into South Africa under the constitution that abolished apartheid

Sources and Contributors:
Ciskei..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 139
.................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 03/22/00
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 95
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 267
Xhosa-Ciskei..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 03/22/00
Xosa-Ciskei..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 03/22/00
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 139
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 03/22/00
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 95
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 267
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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