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ID: 7001016
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001016
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tunis (inhabited place)  Tunis (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 50 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.8333  decimal degrees
Long: 010 13 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 10.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by Libyans; flourished after Muslim conquest in 7th cen.; controlled by Hafsid dynasty from 13th cen. to the 16th cen.; taken twice by Spain in the 16th cen.; fell in 1574 to Turks who held it until French occupation in 1881.

Names:
Tunis (preferred,C,V)
Tūnis (C,V)
Tūnus (C,V)
Túnez (C,V)
Tunes (H,V)  ............ ancient

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Tunisia (nation)  ........  Tunisia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tunis (governorate)  ............  Tunis (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Tunis (inhabited place)  ................  Tunis (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  before 9th cen. BC
city (C)
regional capital (C)  ............  historically since 9th cen.
national capital (C)
tourist center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Tunisia .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Africa) [1000205]

Sources and Contributors:
Tunes..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
..............  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12731
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 358
Túnez..........  [VP]
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-181
Tunis..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 952
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XII, 42
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 199
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1235
Tūnis..........  [BHA]
..............  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Tūnus..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 952
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XII, 42
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 952
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XII, 42
..................  GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) 12731
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1989) I-181
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 199
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 358
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1235
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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