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ID: 1092358
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092358
Record Type:
administrative
Bulawayo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 20 10 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -20.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 028 43 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Was headquarters of Lobengula, King of the Ndebele; occupied by British in 1893; today is industrial center that produces tires, building materials, radios, textiles & autos; site of several colleges.
Names:
Bulawayo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Buluwayo
(
C
,
O
)
בולאוויו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Zimbabwe
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bulawayo Province
(province) (
P
)
................
Bulawayo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was headquarters for Ndebele native tribe in ca. 1840 & became a British settlement in 1893
city (
C
)
............
established 1943
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
municipality (
H
)
............
established 1897
town (
H
)
............
declared 1894
Sources and Contributors:
בולאוויו..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Bulawayo..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 616
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
35
Buluwayo..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
188
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 616
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
35
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
188
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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