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ID: 1090891
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090891
Record Type:
administrative
Fianarantsoa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 27 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -21.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 047 05 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 47.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Name means "where one learns what is good"; situated on the eastern border of forested escarpment with an altitude of 4,000 feet; comprises upper & lower towns environed by woodland; town has a regional center of the University of Madagascar.
Names:
Fianarantsoa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named 1830
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Madagascar
(nation) (
P
)
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Fianarantsoa
(province) (
P
)
................
Fianarantsoa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1830
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fianarantsoa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 758
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 95
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
66
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 758
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 95
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
66
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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