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ID: 7000801
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000801
Record Type:
administrative
Durban (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 53 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -29.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 031 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Inlet site was charted by Vasco da Gama on Christmas 1497; was known to the British by 1684; was laid out in 1835 & named for the governor of Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin D'Urban; became part of British Natal in 1843.
Names:
Durban
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
............
since 1835, named for Sir Benjamin d'Urban governor of Cape Colony
דרבן
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Port Natal
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
KwaZulu/Natal
(province) (
P
)
................
Durban
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled 1824
city (
C
)
............
created 1935
port (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
דרבן..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Durban..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 259
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
59
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
348
Port Natal..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 259
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 288
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 259
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IV, 288
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
59
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
348
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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