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ID: 8698190
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698190
Record Type:
administrative
Gao (former nation/state/empire)
Note:
Kingdom of the Western Sudan, known principally for its trade in Saharan salt. Later became Songhai empire.
Names:
Gao
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
display
,
Arabic (transliterated)
,
U
)
Kawkaw
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Gao
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
9th-12th centuries
Related geographic places:
predecessor of ....
Songhai Empire
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
..........................
(World, Africa) [7032935]
Sources and Contributors:
Gao..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Oxford Companion to Archaeology [online] (2016-).
accessed 21 October 2016
Kawkaw..........
[
VP
]
.................
Oxford Companion to Archaeology [online] (2016-).
accessed 21 October 2016
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley Online (2016-)
accessed 21 October 2016
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 October 2016
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley Online (2016-)
accessed 21 October 2016
..........
Oxford Companion to Archaeology [online] (2016-).
accessed 21 October 2016
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