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ID: 7000438
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000438
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kismaayo (inhabited place)  Kismaayo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 00 22 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -0.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 042 32 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 42.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by the sultan of Zanzibar; controlled by Great Britain in 1887; became part of Jubaland in 1924 & Italian Somaliland from 1927 to 1941; site of mosques & a sultan's palace; port was improved in the 1960s with American aid.

Names:
Kismaayo (preferred,C,V)
Kismayu (C,V)
Chisimayu (C,V)
Chisimaio (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Somalia (nation)  ........  Somalia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lower Juba (region (administrative division))  ............  Lower Juba (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Kismaayo (inhabited place)  ................  Kismaayo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1872
town (C)
regional capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Chisimaio..........  [VP]
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 483
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 894
Chisimayu..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 894
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Kismaayo..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 346
Kismayu..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 894
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 102
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 346
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 483
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 894
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 102
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 346
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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