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ID: 1093241
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093241
Record Type:
administrative
Klerksdorp (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 52 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.8667
decimal degrees
Long: 026 39 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 26.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
First Boer settlement in the province; site of heavy fighting in 1902 in the Boer War; main center of the Klerksdorp Area goldfields; industries include grain-producing, lumber, beverages, machinery & cereals; includes residential suburbs.
Names:
Klerksdorp
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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North West
(province) (
P
)
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Klerksdorp
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1837
town (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Klerksdorp..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 483
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 908
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
102
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
617
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 483
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 908
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
102
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
617
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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