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ID: 1087356
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087356
Record Type:
administrative
Adrar (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 52 15 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 27.8700
decimal degrees
Long: 000 17 18 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.2880
decimal degrees
Note:
Palm grove settlement; historical name derived from local Berber group, the Timmi, who settled fortified village here; current name is Berber for "mountain"; taken by French from Moroccan troops 1900; linked by road to Béchar town & Gao, Mali.
Names:
Adrar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Timmi
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al-Jazā'ir
(nation) (
P
)
............
Adrar
(province) (
P
)
................
Adrar
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
oasis (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Adrar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 106-107
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
7
Timmi..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 106
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 106; I, 106-107
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
7
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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