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ID: 7000553
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000553
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Antananarivo (inhabited place)  Antananarivo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 52 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -18.8667  decimal degrees
Long: 047 30 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 47.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Stands on a basaltic ridge; was historic capital of the Hova chiefs; ruled by Imerina kings from 1794; taken by France in 1895; is linked by rail to the port at Toamasina; international airport is located at nearby Ivato.

Names:
Antananarivo (preferred,C,V)
Tananarive (C,V)
Tananarivo (C,V)
Antannarivo (C,V)
Analamanga (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Madagascar (nation)  ........  Madagascar (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Antananarivo (province)  ............  Antananarivo (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Antananarivo (inhabited place)  ................  Antananarivo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established 17th cen.
city (C)
national capital (C)
provincial capital (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Madagascar .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Africa) [1000173]

Sources and Contributors:
Analamanga..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 912
Antananarivo..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 912
.......................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 439
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 13
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 55
Antannarivo..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 912
Tananarive..........  [VP]
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 194
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 355
Tananarivo..........  [VP]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 55
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 912
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) I, 439
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 95
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 13; 194
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 355
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 55
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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