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ID: 1090442
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090442
Record Type:
administrative
Embu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 32 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.5333
decimal degrees
Long: 037 28 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 37.4667
decimal degrees
Note:
Increased missionary activity in the 1930s led to establishment of several schools; produces processed food, clothes, footwear, beverages & furniture; connected by road to Nairobi & Meru; town has an airfield.
Names:
Embu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kenya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Embu
(county) (
P
)
................
Embu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by British 1906
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Embu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 471-472
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
62
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
601
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 471-472
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
62
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
601
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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