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ID: 1091155
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091155
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gao (inhabited place)  Gao (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 16 16 15 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 16.2717  decimal degrees
Long: 000 02 41 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.0440  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by fishermen; one of the oldest centers for trade in W Africa; prospered during Songhai rule as an important trans-Saharan trading center for copper, gold, slaves & salt; declined as a center for commerce when Morocco ended Songhai rule in 1591.

Names:
Gao (preferred,C,V,English-P)
גאו (C,U,Hebrew )
Kawkaw (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mali (nation)  ........  Mali (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gao (region (administrative division))  ............  Gao (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Gao (inhabited place)  ................  Gao (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded late 7th cen.
town (C)
regional capital (C)
national capital (H)  ............  Songhai Empire, early 11th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
גאו..........  [IMJ]
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gao..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 113
...........  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 70
Kawkaw..........  [VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 113
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 113
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 22 December 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 70
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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