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ID: 7001391
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001391

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ghazzah (inhabited place)  Ghazzah (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 31 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 31.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 034 28 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 34.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Location of ancient Gaza is disputed; was Egyptian military center & city of Philistia; part of Palestine 1917-1948 under British Mandate; under Egypt 1949-1967 (Israeli occupation 1956-1957); occupied by Israel from 1967.

Names:
Ghazzah (preferred,C,V)
Gaza (C,V)
'Azza (C,V)
Ghazze (C,V)
Ghuzzeh (C,V)
Gaza City (C,O,English-P,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah (occupied territory)  ........  Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah (occupied territory) (P)
Hierarchy of Ghazzah (inhabited place)  ............  Ghazzah (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  possibly site of very ancient city of Gazza; modern city founded by Herod the Great in 1st cen. BC
city (C)
port (C)
administrative center (C)  ............  of the Gaza Strip
commercial center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  State of Palestine .......... (autonomous area)
..................  (World, Asia) [7018359]
..................  second de facto capital
near/adjacent to ....  Tel el-Ajjul .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Asia, Qjṯāʻ Ghazzah) [7030360]

Sources and Contributors:
'Azza..........  [BHA]
..............  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Gaza..........  [BHA]
...........  Baedekers: Israel (1983)
...........  Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983)
Gaza City..........  [VP]
....................  Nationhood, Washington Post (1996)
Ghazzah..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Ghazze..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 325
Ghuzzeh..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 325
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Israel (1983)
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 325
..................  Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983)
..................  Nationhood, Washington Post (1996)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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