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ID: 1090020
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090020
Record Type:
administrative
Libreville (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 0.3830
decimal degrees
Long: 009 27 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 9.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
First settled by Pongoue people; Catholic mission founded 1844; name given by freed slaves; British, Germans & Americans established businesses between 1860 & 1874; educational center; Catholic & Protestant Churches; exports lumber, cocoa.
Names:
Libreville
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
established 1849
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Gabon
(nation) (
P
)
............
Estuaire
(province) (
P
)
................
Libreville
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled after 16th cen.
town (
C
)
............
founded 1849
national capital (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
port (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of French Equatorial Africa, 1888
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Gabon
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000164]
Sources and Contributors:
Libreville..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 335
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
110
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
432, 668
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 335
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 30 October 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
110
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
432, 668
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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