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ID: 1084285
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1084285
Record Type:
administrative
Jolo (inhabited place)
Note:
Hub of trade to Zamboanga, Manila & Singapore; center for pearl fishing; ancient residence of Sulu sultans yet most traces of Moro town now gone; scene of Spanish attempt to gain control over Muslims in 1876; taken by US troops in 1945.
Names:
Jolo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pilipinas
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sulu
(province) (
P
)
................
Jolo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pilipinas
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sulu
(province) (
P
)
................
Jolo Island
(island) (
P
)
....................
Jolo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled before introduction of Islam, 14th cen.
town (
C
)
............
walled & fortified, established by Spaniards, 1878
municipality (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Jolo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 603
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
575
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 603
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
575
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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