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ID: 7016463
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016463
Record Type:
administrative
Transkei (former administrative division)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 20 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -31.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 029 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 29.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Former self-governing Bantu territory; together with Ciskei, the traditional home of Xhosa nation; located in non-contiguous sections within borders of Cape Colony, South Africa; laws were subject to approval of South African government.
Names:
Transkei
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Transkei
(former administrative division) (
P
)
Place Types:
former administrative division (
preferred
,
C
)
general region (
C
)
autonomous area (
H
)
............
was self-governing from 1963 until it was reabsorbed into South Africa under constitution that abolished apartheid in 1994
Sources and Contributors:
Transkei..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
657
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/22/00
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
Plate 95
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1225
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
657
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 03/22/00
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
Plate 95
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1225
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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