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ID: 1090071
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090071
Record Type:
administrative
Georgetown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 014 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -14.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Developed as important center in European colonial times; is still major trade & administrative center for area; noted for remains of infamous old slave market.
Names:
Georgetown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
The Gambia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Central River
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Georgetown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
developed as European center for slave trade
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Georgetown..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Gambia Tourist Office, Gambia (1990)
13
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
72
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Gambia Tourist Office, Gambia (1990)
13
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
72
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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