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ID: 7001518
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bombay (inhabited place)  Bombay (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 56 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 18.9333  decimal degrees
Long: 072 51 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 72.8500  decimal degrees

Note: Under Hindu rule until 1348, then taken by Muslims; ceded to Portugal by Sultan of Gujarat 1534; ceded to Great Britain in marriage agreement between Charles II & the Portuguese Infanta Catherine; center for British East India Company from 1685 to 1708.

Names:
Mumbai (preferred,C,V,N)
Bombay (C,V,N,English)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent)
Hierarchy of India (nation)  ........  India (nation)
Hierarchy of Mahārāshtra (state)  ............  Mahārāshtra (state)
Hierarchy of Salsette Island (island)  ................  Salsette Island (island)
Hierarchy of Bombay (inhabited place)  ....................  Bombay (inhabited place)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
state capital (C)
financial center (C)
commercial center (C)
industrial center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  University of Bombay established 1857
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bombay..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 83
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) 1:112
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 348-349
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 31
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 535
Mumbai..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 2:348-349
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 83
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 112; 1:112
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 348-349; 2:348-349
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 31
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 535

 

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