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ID: 1089791 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089791			Record Type: administrative

Dirē Dawa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 09 35 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 9.5833 decimal degrees
Long: 041 52 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 41.8667 decimal degrees

Note: City comprises modern quarter built by French (with Coptic church & royal palace), & old quarter (with a mosque & large Muslim cemetery); has railway workshops, textile & cement factories; trade in coffee & hides; prehistoric paintings are found in caves.

Names:

Dirē Dawa (preferred,C,V)

Dire Dawa (C,V)

Diredawa (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Africa (continent) (P)

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Ityop'iya (nation) (P)

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Dirē Dawa (autonomous district) (P)

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Dirē Dawa (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
transportation center (C)
trade center (C)	............	developed after 1904

Sources and Contributors:

Dire Dawa..........	[VP]
....................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IV, 118
....................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 334

Diredawa..........	[VP]
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 334

Dirē Dawa..........	[VP Preferred]
....................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 56

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IV, 118
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 56
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 334


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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