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ID: 1074483
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1074483
Record Type:
administrative
Aurangābād (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 19.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 075 20 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 75.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
NE of Bombay; founded by Malik ʻAmbār; name changed by Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor who constructed the Bibika Makbara mausoleum based on the Tāj Mahal; later became capital of independent Niẓāms before it was transferred to Hyderābād.
Names:
Aurangābād
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Aurangabad
(
C
,
V
)
Aurungabad
(
C
,
V
)
Khadki
(
H
,
V
)
............
original name
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bhārat
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mahārāshtra
(state) (
P
)
................
Aurangābād
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1610
town (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Ellora Caves
.......... (sacred site)
..............................
(World, Asia, Bhārat, Mahārāshtra) [1075244]
Sources and Contributors:
Aurangābād..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 703
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
17
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
93
Aurangabad..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
93
Aurungabad..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
93
Khadki..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 703
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 703
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2089356
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
17
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
93
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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