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ID: 7000475
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000475
Record Type:
administrative
Agadez (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 007 56 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 7.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
Was the center of a 15th-cen. Tuareg sultanate; taken by the Songhai Empire in 1515; became a crucial center of Islamic learning after the collapse of the Songhai Empire in 1590; controlled by France from 1900 to 1960.
Names:
Agadez
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Agadeès
(
C
,
V
)
Agadés
(
C
,
V
)
Agades
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Niger
(nation) (
P
)
............
Agadez
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Agadez
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was flourishing medieval center
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Agadeès..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
7
Agadés..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 10
Agades..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 10
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 138
Agadez..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 10
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 138
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 4 December 2014
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-2
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 10
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 138
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-2
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
7
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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