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ID: 7001075
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001075
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gafsa (inhabited place)  Gafsa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 008 43 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 8.7167  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient name refers to Mesolithic Capsian industry of the earliest settlers; original Numidian town ruined in 106 BCE by Romans; later rebuilt by Trajan; became a center of Byzantine, Arab, Berber and Ottoman leaders; center for shipment of phosphates.

Names:
Gafsa (preferred,C,V)
Qafşah (C,V)
Qafṣah (C,V)
Qafsah (C,V)
Capsa (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tunisia (nation)  ........  Tunisia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gafsa (governorate)  ............  Gafsa (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Gafsa (inhabited place)  ................  Gafsa (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ....  Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Africa (province)  ........  Africa (province) (P,H) from 146 BCE
Hierarchy of Gafsa (inhabited place)  ............  Gafsa (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  at least by 6250 BCE
town (C)
regional capital (C)
oasis (C)
colony (H)  ............  of ancient Rome

Sources and Contributors:
Capsa..........  [BHA, VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 765
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 10372
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 423
Gafsa..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 830
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 68
Qafşah..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 830
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
.................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Qafsah..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 765
Qafṣah..........  [VP]
.................  Britannica Book of the Year (1990) 731
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1990) 731
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 765
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 830
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 10372
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 68
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 423
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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