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ID: 7001072
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001072
Record Type:
administrative
Kasserine (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 35.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 008 43 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Kasserine Pass was the site of an important Allied victory during World War II which led to the debacle of German resistance in N Africa; is trade center for olive & esparto grass; manufactures paper pulp; is a main road & rail junction.
Names:
Kasserine
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
al-Qașrayn
(
C
,
V
)
al-Qaṣrayn
(
C
,
V
)
Al-Kasrayn
(
C
,
V
)
Al-Qasrayn
(
C
,
V
)
Al Qasrayn
(
C
,
V
)
Cillium
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tunisia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Kasserine
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Kasserine
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Al-Kasrayn..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 467
al-Qașrayn..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 832
Al-Qasrayn..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 467
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
39
al-Qaṣrayn..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Britannica Book of the Year (1990)
731
Al Qasrayn..........
[
VP
]
.......................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Cillium..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
.................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8476
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Kasserine..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 467
....................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 832-833
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
39
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1990)
731
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 467
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 832; IX, 832-833
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8476
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
95
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
39
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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