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ID: 7016461
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016461
Record Type:
administrative
Fazzān (general region)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 26.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 014 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Region of desert and oases in southwest Libya; under Turks from 16th century; part of Italian Tripoli from 1912; Free French forces invaded in March 1942; was province of United Kingdom of Libya 1949-1963.
Names:
Fazzān
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fazzān, Wilāyat
(
C
,
V
)
Wilāyat Fazzān
(
C
,
V
)
Fezzan
(
C
,
V
)
Phazania
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Libya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Fazzān
(general region) (
P
)
Place Types:
general region (
preferred
,
C
)
............
annexed by the Romans in 19 BC
province (
H
)
............
of United Kingdom of Libya, from 1949 to 1963
Sources and Contributors:
Fazzān..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 July 2016
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Fazzān, Wilāyat..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Fezzan..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 758
Phazania..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
393
Wilāyat Fazzān..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 July 2016
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 758
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
393
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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