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ID: 7000639
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000639

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Shaḥḥāt (inhabited place)  Shaḥḥāt (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 49 48 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.8304  decimal degrees
Long: 021 51 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 21.8501  decimal degrees

Note: Adjacent to ancient Greek colony of Cyrene. Settled by Arabs in the 7th century.

Names:
Shaḥḥāt (preferred,C,V)
Shahhat (C,V)
Shahat (C,V)
Sciahhát (C,V)
Grennah (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Libya (nation)  ........  Libya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Jabal al Akhḑar (national district)  ............  Al Jabal al Akhḑar (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Shaḥḥāt (inhabited place)  ................  Shaḥḥāt (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Libya (nation)  ........  Libya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cyrene (deserted settlement)  ............  Cyrene (deserted settlement) (P)
Hierarchy of Shaḥḥāt (inhabited place)  ................  Shaḥḥāt (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded ca. 630 BCE
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
archaeological site (C)
national capital (H)  ............  of Cyrenaica
colony (H)
Ancient Greek (H)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Cyrenaica .......... (historical region)
..................  (World, Africa, Libya) [7000643]
near/adjacent to ....  Cyrene .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Africa, Libya) [7593888]

Sources and Contributors:
Grennah..........  [VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Sciahhát..........  [VP]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Shahat..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
Shaḥḥāt..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) 34SEB7956132804
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 177
Shahhat..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1990) plate 85
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1990) plate 85
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 177
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Global Heritage Fund (2011-) accessed 21 january 2011
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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