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ID: 7000483
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000483
Record Type:
administrative
Mekele (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 29 45 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.4967
decimal degrees
Long: 039 28 30 E
degrees minutes
Long: 39.4753
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest town in Tigray region; principal center of Ethiopia's inland salt trade; produces incense & resin; ruins of prehistoric settlements are nearby.
Names:
Mekele
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Makale
(
C
,
O
)
Maqalé
(
C
,
O
)
Mek'elē
(
C
,
V
)
Makalle
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ethiopia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tigray
(state) (
P
)
................
Mekele
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Ethiopian Empire
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................
(World, Africa) [8711745]
Sources and Contributors:
Makale..........
[
BHA
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Makalle..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 1023
Maqalé..........
[
BHA
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Mekele..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 November 2014
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
380
Mek'elē..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 87
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 1023
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 25 November 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 87
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
125
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
380
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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