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ID: 1095780
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1095780
Record Type:
administrative
Bobo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 11 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 11.1833
decimal degrees
Long: 004 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Controlled by Kong prince Famara Wattara in the 1700s; Kong empire disbanded in 19th cen.; occupied by France in 1897; is the nation's second largest city & main center of industry; terminus of rail lines from Ouagadougou & Abidjan.
Names:
Bobo-Dioulasso
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bobo Dioulasso
(
C
,
V
)
Bobo
(
C
,
U
,
English-P
)
בובו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Burkina Faso
(nation) (
P
)
............
Hauts-Bassins
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Bobo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
from the 15th cen.
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Gwiriko, 18th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
בובו..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Bobo..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Bobo Dioulasso..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 308
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
155
Bobo-Dioulasso..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 26 September 2014
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 308
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
155
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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