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ID: 7000496
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000496
Record Type:
administrative
Brass (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 4.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 006 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at mouth of Brass river, a channel of the Niger delta; was formerly a flourishing trading settlement; British & Portuguese introduced slave trade; was occupied after Christians were massacred at Akassa in 1895.
Names:
Brass
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bayelsa
(state) (
P
)
................
Brass
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was early colonial settlement
town (
C
)
trade center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Brass..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
170
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
170
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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