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ID: 1091870
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091870
Record Type:
administrative
Asaba (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 11 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.1833
decimal degrees
Long: 006 43 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Traditional market center for Ibo people; became administrative headquarters of Royal Niger Company 1886-1900; town where British Explorers of the Niger were taken captive by the Ibos in 1830; center of palm produce; has a textile factory.
Names:
Asaba
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
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Delta
(state) (
P
)
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Asaba
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Asaba..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 612
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
16
Subject:
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[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 612
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
16
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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