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ID: 7018612
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018612
Record Type:
administrative
Al-Kūfah (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 32.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 044 23 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Was an early trading town in Mesopotamia; founded in 7th cen. at same time as Basra; both towns became important Islamic cultural centers of early Ommiad caliphs; flourished 7th-8th cen. with population of 200,000; taken by Karmathians in 890.
Names:
Al-Kūfah
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Al-Kufa
(
C
,
V
)
Al Kūfah
(
C
,
V
)
Kufa
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Iraq
(nation) (
P
)
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An Najaf
(governorate) (
P
)
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Al-Kūfah
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Caliph Omar I in 638 AD
town (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
cultural center (
H
)
............
famed as literary center where Kufic angular Arabic script developed & was used for Koran & on monuments & coins
political center (
H
)
trade center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Al-Kufa..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
34
Al-Kūfah..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Al Kūfah..........
[
BWR Preferred
,
VP
]
.................
BWR database (2010-)
Kufa..........
[
VP
]
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
34
Subject:
.....
[
BWR
,
VP
]
..................
BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
BWR-09
..................
BWR database (2010-)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
34
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
BWR database (2010-)
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