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ID: 7000394
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000394
Record Type:
administrative
Brazzaville (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 15 32 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -4.2592
decimal degrees
Long: 015 17 02 E
degrees minutes
Long: 15.2847
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by explorer Pierre Brazza when the French purchased the village of Ntamo; African headquarters of the Free French forces in World War II; former capital of French Equatorial Africa; site of the Poto-Poto School of African Art.
Names:
Brazzaville
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Congo
(nation) (
P
)
............
Brazzaville
(department) (
P
)
................
Brazzaville
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1883
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
commune (administrative) (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Congo
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000158]
Sources and Contributors:
Brazzaville..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 120
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 490
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
171
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 120
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 490
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 October 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
171
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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