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ID: 1087497 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087497			Record Type: administrative

Laghouat (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 49 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 33.8167 decimal degrees
Long: 002 55 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 2.9167 decimal degrees

Note: Banū Hilāl invaders with support of Egyptian Fātimids crossed the area 11th cen.; controlled by Morocco 17th cen.; taken by Ottoman Empire 1786; conquered by France 1852; located on the route connecting the nation's capital with central Africa.

Names:

Laghouat (preferred,C,V,English-P)

לגואט (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Africa (continent) (P)

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Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)

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Laghouat (province) (P)

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Laghouat (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	settled 11th cen.
town (C)
department capital (C)
oasis (C)

Sources and Contributors:

לגואט..........	[IMJ]
..............	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)

Laghouat..........	[IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 498
.................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 100
.................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 107

Subject: .....	[IMJ, VP]
..................	Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 498
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 100
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 107


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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