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ID: 7000397
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000397
Record Type:
administrative
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:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bénin
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ouémé
(department) (
P
)
................
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 ....
Bénin
.......... (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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