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ID: 1087464
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087464
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Guelma (inhabited place)  Guelma (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 007 25 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.4167  decimal degrees

Note: The pre-Roman settlement of Calama later became a proconsular province & bishopric of St. Possidius, the biographer of St. Augustine; Roman ruins include baths & a theater; modern town founded 19th cen. by Marshal B Clauzel as French military post.

Names:
Guelma (preferred,C,V)
Calama (H,V)  ............ pre-Roman settlement

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-Jazā'ir (nation)  ........  Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Guelma (province)  ............  Guelma (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Guelma (inhabited place)  ................  Guelma (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since pre-Roman times; modern town founded 1836
town (C)
department capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Calama..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 541
Guelma..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 541
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 78
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 541
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 78
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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