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ID: 1093575
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093575
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roodepoort-Maraisburg (inhabited place)  Roodepoort-Maraisburg (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 26 11 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -26.1833  decimal degrees
Long: 027 54 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 27.9000  decimal degrees

Note: W of Johannesburg in the Witwatersrand; goldfields lie along the southern boundary; supports diversified manufacturing; small memorial nearby indicates the scene of British colonial statesman Leander Starr Jameson's 1896 surrender to the Boers.

Names:
Roodepoort-Maraisburg (preferred,C,V)
Maraisburg (C,V)
Roodepoort (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of South Africa (nation)  ........  South Africa (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Gauteng (province)  ............  Gauteng (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Roodepoort-Maraisburg (inhabited place)  ................  Roodepoort-Maraisburg (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1886
city (C)
annex (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Maraisburg..........  [VP]
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 122
Roodepoort..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) X, 171
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 167
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1029
Roodepoort-Maraisburg..........  [VP Preferred]
......................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) X, 171
......................................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-147
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) X, 171
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991) I-147
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 122; 167
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1029
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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