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ID: 1079613
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1079613
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Rehovot (inhabited place)  Rehovot (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 54 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 31.9000  decimal degrees
Long: 034 49 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 34.8167  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by Warsaw Jews; has prosperous citrus groves making it economically self-sufficient; first town to dismiss Arab guards & to employ Jewish settlement police while under Ottoman rule; has memorial to Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel.

Names:
Reẖovot (preferred,C,V)
Rehovot (C,V,English-P)
Rehovoth (C,O)
רחובות (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Israel (nation)  ........  Israel (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Central District (national district)  ............  Central District (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Rehovot (inhabited place)  ................  Rehovot (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1890
town (C)
agricultural center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
רחובות..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Reẖovot..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 1005-1006
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 163
Rehovot..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1009
Rehovoth..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1009
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 1005-1006
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 163
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 1009
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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