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ID: 1079400
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1079400
Record Type:
administrative
An-Nāṣirīyah (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 02 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 31.0333
decimal degrees
Long: 046 16 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 46.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Noted for sun-dried brick buildings, enclosed by a mud wall; industries include boatbuilding, carpentry & silverworking; captured by British from Ottomans in 1915 during World War I; is located near ruins of ancient Ur.
Names:
An-Nāṣirīyah
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
An Nasiriya
(
C
,
O
)
Nasiriya
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Asia
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Iraq
(nation) (
P
)
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Dhī Qār
(governorate) (
P
)
................
An-Nāṣirīyah
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1870
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
An Nasiriya..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
54
An-Nāṣirīyah..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 523
Nasiriya..........
[
VP
]
.................
War on Iraq [maps]. CNN (2003)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 523
..................
War on Iraq [maps]. CNN (2003)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
54
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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