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ID: 1093653
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093653

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Springs (inhabited place)  Springs (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 26 16 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -26.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 028 26 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 28.4333  decimal degrees

Note: E of Johannesburg in the Witwatersrand; founded as a camp for coal mining; incorporated in 1912; became the world's largest single gold-producing region by the mid-20th cen.; manufacturing has supplanted gold mining as the chief economic activity.

Names:
Springs (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gauteng (province)  ............  Gauteng (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Springs (inhabited place)  ................  Springs (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1885
town (C)
mining center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Springs..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 182
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 188
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) XI, 182
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 188
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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