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ID: 7002235
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002235
Record Type:
administrative
Ābādān (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 30 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 30.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 048 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 48.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Ownership long disputed between Persia & Ottoman Empire; acquired by Persia 1847; fighting between locals & Iranian soldiers 1978; economy dominated by oil refining & shipping; petroleum refineries bombed & city encircled by Iraq 1980.
Names:
Ābādān
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
,
Persian-Farsi (transliterated)-P
)
Abadan
(
C
,
V
)
ʻAbbādān
(
C
,
V
)
آبادان
(
C
,
U
,
Persian-Farsi-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Iran
(nation) (
P
)
............
Khūzestān
(province) (
P
)
................
Ābādān
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
reputedly founded 8th cen.
city (
C
)
seat (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
آبادان..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3051014
Ābādān..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I:6-7
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3051014
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
Abadan..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 6-7
ʻAbbādān..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 6-7
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 6-7
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-3051014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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