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ID: 1089719
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089719
Record Type:
administrative
Asmara (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 038 58 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 38.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Established as a hamlet of Tigrai people; occupied by Italy 1889; was leading city in Italian East Africa; under British administration 1941-1952; noted for Roman Catholic cathedral & Grand Mosque, population is half Christian, half Muslim.
Names:
Asmara
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Āsmera
(
C
,
V
)
Asmera
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Iritriyā
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ma’ākel
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Asmara
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
town grew after 1934
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
............
of both Asmara & Hamasien regions
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Italian colony, from 1936
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Iritriyā
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [7001658]
Sources and Contributors:
Asmara..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 2 February 2015
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
83
Asmera..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 635
.................
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Āsmera..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
16
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 635
..................
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
16
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
83
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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