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ID: 1087436
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087436
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Djelfa (inhabited place)  Djelfa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 003 14 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 3.2333  decimal degrees

Note: Located between towns of Laghouat & Bou Saâda; town is at a transition point between Hauts Plateaux to the N & Sahara desert to the S; founded mid-19th cen. as a military base for France on a geometric plan; market center for goats, sheep & asses.

Names:
Djelfa (preferred,C,V,English-P)
El Djelfa (C,V)
El-Djelfa (C,V)  ............ after 1981
דג'לפה (C,U,Hebrew )

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1852
town (C)
department capital (C)  ............  since 1974
market center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
דג'לפה..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Djelfa..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 138
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 56
El Djelfa..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 138
El-Djelfa..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 138
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IV, 138
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 56
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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