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ID: 7000475
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000475

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Agadez (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Niger (nation)  ........  Niger (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Agadez (region (administrative division))  ............  Agadez (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Agadez (inhabited place)  ................  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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