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ID: 1092884
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092884
Record Type:
administrative
Bloemfontein (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 07 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -29.1167
decimal degrees
Long: 026 14 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 26.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally founded as a fort & domicile by Douglas Warden; capital of the British-governed Orange River Sovereignty between 1848-1854; failure of the Bloemfontein Conference in 1899 led to outbreak of the Boer War; national judicial capital.
Names:
Bloemfontein
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Free State
(province) (
P
)
................
Bloemfontein
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1846
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1854
national capital (
C
)
judicial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
municipality (
C
)
............
since 1880
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
South Africa
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000193]
..................
judicial capital
Sources and Contributors:
Bloemfontein..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 108
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 287
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1133
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 108
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 287
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
29
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1133
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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