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ID: 7000631
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000631
Record Type:
administrative
Ṭubruq (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 023 59 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 23.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of Greek agricultural colony in Antiquity; later was Roman fortress protecting Cyrenaica frontier; important strategic center & scene of much fighting as it changed hands several times in WW II.
Names:
Ṭubruq
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tubruq
(
C
,
V
)
Tobruk
(
C
,
O
)
Tobruch
(
C
,
O
)
Antipygros
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Libya
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Buţnān
(national district) (
P
)
................
Ṭubruq
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
by era of Greek colonists
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Antipygros..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 937
Tobruch..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 937
Tobruk..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1216
Ṭubruq..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
198
Tubruq..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
358
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 937
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
198
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
358
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1216
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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