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ID: 7001169
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001169
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wargla (inhabited place)  Wargla (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 005 16 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.2667  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by Kharijite Muslims fleeing from religious persecution; held briefly by Turks in the 1500s; conquered by French 1853; present town constructed to the S around Ft. Lutaud after 1928; trades in basketry, livestock & woolen carpets; has an airport.

Names:
Wargla (preferred,C,V)  ............ after 1981
Ouargla (C,V)
Warqla (C,V)

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled ca. 1000
town (C)
department capital (C)
oasis (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ouargla..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 9
Wargla..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 9
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-188
Warqla..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 700
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 9
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-188
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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