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ID: 7016478
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016478
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bengkulu (inhabited place)  Bengkulu (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 03 46 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -3.7667  decimal degrees
Long: 102 16 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 102.2667  decimal degrees

Note: Was site of 17th-cen. British trading post; Fort of Marlborough constructed 1710; passed to Dutch under Treaty of London 1824; exports silver, gold, coffee, pepper, corn & cinchona bark; produces textiles, pottery, tiles & baskets.

Names:
Bengkulu (preferred,C,V)
Bencoolen (C,O)
Benkulen (H,O)
Benkoelen (H,O)
Bengkoelen (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Indonesia (nation)  ........  Indonesia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Bengkulu (province)  ............  Bengkulu (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Bengkulu (inhabited place)  ................  Bengkulu (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  developed as trading post in 17th cen.
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bencoolen..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 101
Bengkoelen..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 94
Bengkulu..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 101
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 25
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 541
Benkoelen..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 94
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 101
Benkulen..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 94
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 94
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 101
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 25
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 541
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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