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ID: 7016480
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016480
Record Type:
administrative
Padang (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -1.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 100 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 100.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Main port on the island's W shore; was estasblished as a Dutch factory; fortified in 1667; was chief city of the Minangkabau people of Sumatera Barat; ships coffee & copra; was under control of British 1812-1818.
Names:
Padang
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Indonesia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sumatera Barat
(province) (
P
)
................
Padang
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
developed as a Dutch settlement
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
seaport (
C
)
............
constructed 1880-1890
university center (
C
)
............
seat of Andalas University
transportation center (
C
)
............
for ship, road & air traffic
Sources and Contributors:
Padang..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 51
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
148
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
541
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 51
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
148
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
541
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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