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ID: 1066468
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1066468
Record Type:
administrative
Negombo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 079 51 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 79.8500
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport & commercial fishing center; was contested by Dutch & Portuguese settlers; taken by British in 1796; was terminus for Dutch cinnamon canal, & area still produces cinnamon trees; is a popular tourist resort.
Names:
Negombo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Shrī Laṁkā
(nation) (
P
)
............
Western
(province) (
P
)
................
Negombo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
fishing community (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Negombo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
441
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
137
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
818
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
441
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
137
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
818
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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