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ID: 7025561
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025561
Record Type:
administrative
In Salah (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 12 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 27.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 002 29 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Algeria on S ridge of arid Tademait plateau; was the site of early trans-Saharan caravan trade; was a thriving center for nomadic Tuareg and others; it comprises four walled sections, each with a citadel.
Names:
In Salah
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Aïn Salah
(
C
,
V
)
Ain Salah
(
C
,
O
)
I-n-Salah
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Algeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tamanrasset
(province) (
P
)
................
In Salah
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an important early center
oasis settlement (
C
)
town (
C
)
trade center (
H
)
............
was thriving trade center, particularly for dates
Sources and Contributors:
Ain Salah..........
[
VP
]
....................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
335
Aïn Salah..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
10/20/2000
In Salah..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
89
I-n-Salah..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 10/30/2000
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
10/20/2000; accessed 10/30/2000
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
89
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
335
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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