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ID: 1090934
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090934
Record Type:
administrative
Mahajanga (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 40 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -15.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 046 20 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 46.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated on the Baie de Bombetoka; occupied by the French between 1883-1885 & again in 1894; base for a French expeditionary force in 1895 that continued to Antananarivo & installed a protectorate over the nation.
Names:
Mahajanga
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Majunga
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Madagascar
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mahajanga
(province) (
P
)
................
Mahajanga
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Boina kingdom, 18th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Mahajanga..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 553-554
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 693
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
119
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
712
Majunga..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 553
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 693
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 95
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
712
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 553; II, 553-554
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 693
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 95
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
119
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
712
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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