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ID: 1090839
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090839

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Antsirana (inhabited place)  Antsirana (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 12 16 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -12.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 049 17 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 49.2833  decimal degrees

Note: Documented by Portuguese explorer Diégo Dias in 1500; was named after Diégo Suares, who visited here in 1543; occupied by France in 1841; site of a French naval base after 1901; port occupied by British troops in 1942 during World War II.

Names:
Antsirana (preferred,C,V)
Antsiranana (C,V)
Antsirane (C,V)
Antseranana (C,V)
Ampanolahamirafy (C,V)
Diégo-Suarez (H,V)
Diego-Suarez (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Madagascar (nation)  ........  Madagascar (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Antsiranana (province)  ............  Antsiranana (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Antsirana (inhabited place)  ................  Antsirana (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  European settlement in 16th cen.
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
harbor (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ampanolahamirafy..........  [VP]
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Antseranana..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 470
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 14
Antsirana..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 243
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Antsiranana..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 243
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 470
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-8
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 332
Antsirane..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 243
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 332
Diégo-Suarez..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 243
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 470
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 332
Diego-Suarez..........  [VP]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 29
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 29
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 243; II, 243
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 470
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-8
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 14
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 332
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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