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ID: 6003998
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6003998
Record Type:
administrative
Mossi (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 17 06 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 11.2856
decimal degrees
Long: 000 29 09 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.4860
decimal degrees
Note:
A group of seven states from around the headwaters of the Volta, in present-day Burkina Faso and Ghana. Remained independent until the oneset of French colonization in the late 19th century.
Names:
Mossi
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mossi
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
15th-19th centuries
state (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Mossi..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2016
..................
Google Maps online (2000-)
accessed 24 October 2016
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 24 October 2016
..........
Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley Online (2016-)
accessed 24 October 2016
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