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ID: 1087464
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087464
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Guelma (inhabited place)  Guelma (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 007 25 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.4167  decimal degrees

Note: The pre-Roman settlement of Calama later became a proconsular province & bishopric of St. Possidius, the biographer of St. Augustine; Roman ruins include baths & a theater; modern town founded 19th cen. by Marshal B Clauzel as French military post.

Names:
Guelma (preferred,C,V)
Calama (H,V)  ............ pre-Roman settlement

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since pre-Roman times; modern town founded 1836
town (C)
department capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Calama..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 541
Guelma..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 541
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 78
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 541
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 78
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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