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ID: 7001244
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001244
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bejaïa (inhabited place)  Bejaïa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 49 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.8167  decimal degrees
Long: 005 03 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.0500  decimal degrees

Note: Fortified city of Genseric the Vandal 5th cen.; Berber settlement of the Bejaïa tribe; became a Hammādid capital 1067; pirate base in Middle Ages; introduced the wax candle to Europe through trade (origin of French "bougie"; taken by France 1833.

Names:
Bejaïa (preferred,C,V)
Bejaia (C,V)
Bougie (H,V)
Bugia (H,V)
Saldae (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-Jazā'ir (nation)  ........  Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Bejaïa (province)  ............  Bejaïa (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Bejaïa (inhabited place)  ................  Bejaïa (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  Punic settlement in Mauretania Caesariensis, later a Roman colony
town (C)
department capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bejaïa..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Bejaia..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 338
Bougie..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Bugia..........  [VP]
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 339
Saldae..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 797
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 797
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 338; 339
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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