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ID: 7000397
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000397
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Porto-Novo (inhabited place)  Porto-Novo (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 06 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 6.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 002 37 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.6167  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by Portuguese as trading post for slaves; seat of a local 19th-cen. kingdom of the same name; became French protectorate in 1863; linked by railway & roads to Benin's chief urban center & de facto capital, Cotonou.

Names:
Porto-Novo (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Benin (nation)  ........  Benin (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ouémé (department)  ............  Ouémé (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Porto-Novo (inhabited place)  ................  Porto-Novo (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 16th cen.
town (C)
national capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Benin .......... (nation)
..................  (World, Africa) [1000160]

Sources and Contributors:
Porto-Novo..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 751
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 630
.......................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 April 2014
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-139
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 973
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 751
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) IX, 630
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 April 2014
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-139
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 973
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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