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ID: 1093747
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093747
Record Type:
administrative
Vereeniging (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 41 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 027 56 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.9333
decimal degrees
Note:
S of Johannesburg on the Vaal River; site of peace negotiations resulting in the Peace of Vereeniging which ended the Boer War in 1902; manufactures iron & steel products, glass, bricks & tiles; scene of demonstrations in 1960.
Names:
Vereeniging
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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Gauteng
(province) (
P
)
................
Vereeniging
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1892
town (
C
)
............
incorporated 1912
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Vereeniging..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 316
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
208
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 316
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
208
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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