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ID: 1090602
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090602
Record Type:
administrative
Monrovia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 010 48 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -10.8000
decimal degrees
Note:
Established as settlement for freed slaves by American Colonization Society; named after US President Monroe; inhabitants are descendants of 19th-cen. North American settlers & immigrants from the interior; only free port of W Africa.
Names:
Monrovia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Liberia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Montserrado
(county) (
P
)
................
Monrovia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1822
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
free port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Liberia
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000171]
Sources and Contributors:
Monrovia..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 280
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
130
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 280
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
130
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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