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ID: 7000860
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000860
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Kimberley (inhabited place)  Kimberley (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 28 45 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -28.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 024 46 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 24.7667  decimal degrees

Note: Diamond center of the world with Kimberley, De Beers & other renowned mines in the area; was besieged by Boer forces 1899-1900 during the Boer War; city has numerous memorials; iron, salt & gypsum are mined nearby.

Names:
Kimberley (preferred,C,V,English-P)  ............ named in 1873
קימברלי (C,U,Hebrew )

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 Northern Cape (province)  ............  Northern Cape (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Kimberley (inhabited place)  ................  Kimberley (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1871
city (C)  ............  since 1912
mining center (C)
commercial center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Griqualand West, 1873-1880

Sources and Contributors:
קימברלי..........  [IMJ]
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Kimberley..........  [BHA, IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
....................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
....................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 479
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 865
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
....................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 101
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 611
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 479
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 865
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 101
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 611
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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