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ID: 7006457
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006457
Record Type:
administrative
Canal Zone (general region)
Note:
Ten mile strip of land along canal extending from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean bisecting Isthmus of Panamá; administrative entity divided into two subdivisions, Balboa and Cristobal; north portion of former zone now part of Colón province.
Names:
Canal Zone
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Canal Area
(
C
,
O
)
Panama Canal Zone
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Panamá
(nation) (
P
)
............
Canal Zone
(general region) (
P
)
Place Types:
general region (
preferred
,
C
)
............
under US control from 1903 to October 1, 1979, when it was abolished & retuned to nation
Sources and Contributors:
Canal Area..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
491
Canal Zone..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
2:792
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
Panama Canal Zone..........
[
VP
]
................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 792
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
491
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 792; 2:792
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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