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ID: 1093339
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093339
Record Type:
administrative
Mahikeng (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 53 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -25.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 025 39 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 25.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as a military outpost for Great Britain; garrison under Robert Baden-Powell was besieged by Boers 1899-1900; today is a dairy center for surrounding cattle-raising territory.
Names:
Mahikeng
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Mafikeng
(
C
,
V
)
Mafeking
(
H
,
V
)
............
until 1980
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
North West
(province) (
P
)
................
Mahikeng
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1885
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1994
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Mafeking..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 666
Mafikeng..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 666
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
118
Mahikeng..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 June 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 666
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
118
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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