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ID: 7000380
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000380
Record Type:
administrative
Freetown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 013 17 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -13.2833
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded mainly by former slaves assisted by British abolitionists on land given by local chieftains; major administrative center for Britain's West African colonies; Royal Navy patrol base against slavers; used as naval base in World War II.
Names:
Freetown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sierra Leone
(nation) (
P
)
............
Western Area
(area) (
P
)
................
Freetown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1787
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
of independent nation, 1961
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Sierra Leone
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000191]
Sources and Contributors:
Freetown..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 312
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
69
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
417
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 312
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
69
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
417
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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