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ID: 7000802
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000802
Record Type:
administrative
Pietermaritzburg (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 36 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -29.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 030 24 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 30.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by Boers from Cape Colony; named after their leaders Piet Retief & Gerrit Maritz, who died in a Boer victory over the Zulus at Blood River; occupied by British in 1843; incorporated in 1854; is a trade center for wattle tree bark.
Names:
Pietermaritzburg
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Maritzburg
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
KwaZulu/Natal
(province) (
P
)
................
Pietermaritzburg
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1839
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1856
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Maritzburg..........
[
FDA
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
Pietermaritzburg..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.............................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
9:434-435
.............................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.............................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
153
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1133
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
954
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 434-435; 9:434-435
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1988)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
153
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1133
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
954
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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