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ID: 1093507
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093507
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pietersburg (inhabited place)  Pietersburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 23 54 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -23.9000  decimal degrees
Long: 029 23 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 29.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Named after Boer general Petrus (Piet) Joubert; headquarters of Dutch military operations during Boer War; occupied by British in 1901; located in a fertile agricultural region that produces potatoes, alfalfa, garlic & corn; nature reserve S of the town.

Names:
Pietersburg (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Limpopo (province)  ............  Limpopo (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Pietersburg (inhabited place)  ................  Pietersburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by voortrekkers 1886
town (C)
trade center (C)
educational center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Orange Free State, 1900; temporarily of Transvaal, 1900

Sources and Contributors:
Pietersburg..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 435
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 153
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 954
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 435
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 153
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 954
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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