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ID: 7001734
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001734
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Venda (former administrative division)  Venda (former administrative division)

Coordinates:
Lat: 23 00 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -23.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 030 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 30.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Former independent black homeland within borders of the Republic of South Africa; traditional territory of the Vhavenda peoples; South Africa granted self-government in 1973 & independence in 1979, though status was not recognized internationally.

Names:
Venda (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
Bantustan (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Venda (former administrative division)  ............  Venda (former administrative division) (P)

Place Types:
former administrative division (preferred, C)
general region (C)
autonomous area (H)  ............  self-governing from 1973 until it was reabsorbed into South Africa after dissolution of apartheid in 1994

Sources and Contributors:
Bantustan..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 357
Venda..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 686
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 94
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 94
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1287
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 686
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 94
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) Plate 94
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 357
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1287
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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