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Nagasaki (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 32 45 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.7500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 129 52 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 129.8667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Chief center of contact with foreigners after 1571; a port of call for Spanish, Dutch & Portuguese ships; the only port in Japan kept open to foreign trade 1636-1859; inner city destroyed by atomic bomb 1945; rebuilt since 1945. |
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| Nagasaki (preferred,C,V,O,Japanese (transliterated)-P)
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| Nagasakishi (C,U,Japanese (transliterated))
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| Nagasaki-shi (C,U,Japanese (transliterated))
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| ナガサキシ (C,U,Japanese)
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| ナガサキ (C,U,Japanese)
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| ながさき (C,U,Japanese)
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| 長崎 (C,U,Japanese)
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| 長崎市 (C,U,Japanese-P)
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| ながさきし (C,U,Japanese)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Nagasaki (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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first Portuguese ships arrived here in 1571 |
| city (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| commercial center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| religious center (H) |
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of Japanese Christianity, after 1571 |
| imperial city (H) |
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created by Hideyoshi in 1587 |
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