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ID: 1087557
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087557
Record Type:
administrative
Sidi Bel Abbès (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 35.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 000 39 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Named for nearby tomb of Saint Sīdī bel 'Abbāss; established as military outpost for France mid-19th cen.; headquarters of French Foreign Legion until Algeria gained independence in 1962; industry includes manufacturing of farm machines.
Names:
Sidi Bel Abbès
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Sidi-bel-Abbès
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Al-Jazā'ir
(nation) (
P
)
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Sidi Bel Abbès
(province) (
P
)
................
Sidi Bel Abbès
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1843 as French military outpost; became planned agricultural town 1849
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
since 1849
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Sidi Bel Abbès..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 861
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 783
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
183
Sidi-bel-Abbès..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 861
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 861
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 783
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
183
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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