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ID: 1074483
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1074483
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Aurangābād (inhabited place)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Bhārat (nation)  ........  Bhārat (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mahārāshtra (state)  ............  Mahārāshtra (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Aurangābād (inhabited place)  ................  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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