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ID: 7005770
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005770
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Cayenne (inhabited place)  Cayenne (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 04 55 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 4.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 052 18 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -52.3000  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Cayenne island at mouth of Cayenne river; founded by the French; periodically held by the Dutch in 17th cen.; became hub of French penal settlements in 19th cen., & was known as the "city of the condemned"; prisons were closed in 1944.

Names:
Cayenne (preferred,C,V)  ............ name used after 1777
La Ravardière (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Guyane (dependent state)  ........  Guyane (dependent state) (P)
Hierarchy of Cayenne (inhabited place)  ............  Cayenne (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Guyane (dependent state)  ........  Guyane (dependent state) (P)
Hierarchy of Cayenne (arrondissement)  ............  Cayenne (arrondissement) (P)
Hierarchy of Cayenne (inhabited place)  ................  Cayenne (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1643
city (C)
capital (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Guyane .......... (dependent state)
..................  (World, South America) [1000053]
capital of ....  Polynésie française .......... (dependent state)
..................  (World, Oceania) [1000216]

Sources and Contributors:
Cayenne..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 164
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 41
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 231
La Ravardière..........  [VP]
..........................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 164
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 164
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 41
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 231
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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