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ID: 5000595
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/5000595
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tamentfoust (inhabited place)  Tamentfoust (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 47 53 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.7980  decimal degrees
Long: 003 14 15 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.2370  decimal degrees

Note: Located at Cape Matifou; original colony was destroyed in medieval times & its stones were used to build the nearby city of El Djazaïr; ruins include a large Christian basilica with figurative mosaic decoration in central nave.

Names:
Tamentfoust (preferred,C,V)
Tametfoust (C,V)
Tamenfoust (C,V)
La Pérouse (C,V)
Rusguniae (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Algiers (province)  ............  Algiers (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Tamentfoust (inhabited place)  ................  Tamentfoust (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  possibly inhabited in pre-Roman times; colony founded here during reign of Augustus
archaeological site (C)  ............  since 19th cen.
colony (H)

Sources and Contributors:
La Pérouse..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Rusguniae..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
....................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5457
....................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 776
Tamenfoust..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 25 February 2015
Tamentfoust..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 25 February 2015
Tametfoust..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 776
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 5457
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 25 February 2015
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 776
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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