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ID: 7001318
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001318
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mostaganem (inhabited place)  Mostaganem (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 55 52 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.9310  decimal degrees
Long: 000 05 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 0.0830  decimal degrees

Note: Port city, founded on the site of a Roman town; site of an 11th-cen. citadel; prospered as part of Ottoman Empire 16th cen.; occupied by French 1833; industries include sugar refining & paper pulp processing; exports wine, vegetables, diatomite & fruits.

Names:
Mostaganem (preferred,C,V)
Mestghanem (C,V)  ............ after 1981
Mastaganeam (C,V)
Mustaghanim (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mostaganem (province)  ............  Mostaganem (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Mostaganem (inhabited place)  ................  Mostaganem (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since Roman times
city (C)
department capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Mastaganeam..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Mestghanem..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 624
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 358
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-110
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 794
Mostaganem..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 624
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 358
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 794
Mustaghanim..........  [VP]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 624
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 358
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-110
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 794
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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