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ID: 8698205
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698205

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Medri Bahri (historical region)  Medri Bahri (historical region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 15 55 08 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 15.9197  decimal degrees
Long: 038 11 16 E  degrees minutes   Long: 38.1889  decimal degrees

Note: Name of present-day Eritrea sometime after the 14th century. The kingdom included the territory north of the Mareb River out to the Red Sea at Massawa; its capital was at Debarwa. Identified as a vassal state by rulers of both Tigrai and Abyssinia, in the 18th century the kingdom often at war with the latter.

Names:
Medri Bahri (preferred,C,V,display)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Iritriyā (nation)  ........  Iritriyā (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Medri Bahri (historical region)  ............  Medri Bahri (historical region) (P)

Place Types:
historical region (preferred, C)  ............  14th-18th centuries
kingdom (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Medri Bahri..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Heile, Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict (1998) 12-13
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Google Maps online (2000-) accessed 25 October 2016
..................  Heile, Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict (1998) 12-13
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Heile, Ethiopia-Eritrea Conflict (1998) 12-13

 

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