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ID: 1091323
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091323
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Port Louis (inhabited place)  Port Louis (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 20 10 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -20.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 057 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 57.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Populated in the early 1700s by Dutch maroons (runaway slaves); occupied by British during & following the Napoleonic Wars; large number of emigrants came from India in the early 1800s; exports sugar; has a tobacco warehouse & cigarette factory.

Names:
Port Louis (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mauritius (nation)  ........  Mauritius (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Port Louis (national district)  ............  Port Louis (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Port Louis (inhabited place)  ................  Port Louis (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mauritius (nation)  ........  Mauritius (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mauritius (island)  ............  Mauritius (island) (P)
Hierarchy of Port Louis (inhabited place)  ................  Port Louis (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  permanently settled 1735
city (C)
national capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Port Louis..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 750
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 621
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 154
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 972
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 750
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 621
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 154
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 972
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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