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ID: 7016806
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016806
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Senegambia (general region)  Senegambia (general region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 16 06 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 16.1000  decimal degrees
Long: 014 00 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -14.0000  decimal degrees

Note: General region of western Africa that was exploited in the slave trade. Comprised primarily of what is now parts of Mali and Senegal.

Names:
Senegambia (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Senegambia (general region)  ........  Senegambia (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)

Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....  Senegambia .......... (former group of nations/states/cities)
..................................  (World, Africa) [8711611]

Sources and Contributors:
Senegambia..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 427
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 427
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1098

 

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