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ID: 1091014
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091014
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Toamasina (inhabited place)  Toamasina (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 10 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -18.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 049 23 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 49.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Ceded by England to France in 1814; seized in 1817 by Radama I, who made it the main port of the Hova kingdom; under French control in 1894 when it was used as a center for French conquest of the hinterland; rebuilt after destruction by a 1927 hurricane.

Names:
Toamasina (preferred,C,V)
Tamatave (C,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 Toamasina (province)  ............  Toamasina (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Toamasina (inhabited place)  ................  Toamasina (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Portuguese 17th cen
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tamatave..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 811
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1184
Toamasina..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911-912
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 811
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 199
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1184
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 911; II, 911-912
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 811
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 199
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1184
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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