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ID: 8711572
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8711572
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gwolu (inhabited place)  Gwolu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 10 58 40 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 10.9788  decimal degrees
Long: 002 13 01 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.2172  decimal degrees

Note: Noted for its 19th-century "slave defense walls" used to resist slave traders.

Names:
Gwolu (preferred,C,V)
Gwollu (C,V)
Gollu (C,V)
Golu (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ghana (nation)  ........  Ghana (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Upper West (region (administrative division))  ............  Upper West (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Gwolu (inhabited place)  ................  Gwolu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Gollu..........  [VP]
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 10 February 2017
Golu..........  [VP]
...........  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 10 February 2017
Gwollu..........  [VP]
.................  AATA database (1995-)
Gwolu..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 10 February 2017
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 10 February 2017
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  AATA database (1995-)

 

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