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ID: 1087519
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087519
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mascara (inhabited place)  Mascara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 000 01 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 0.0167  decimal degrees

Note: Founded as a military post for Turkey; Algerian national leader Abdelkader was native to the area & was headquartered here in 1832; was destroyed by France in 1835; chief industry is wine production; is trade center for leather goods, grains & olive oil.

Names:
Mouaskar (preferred,C,V)  ............ after 1981
Mascara (C,V,English-P)
מסקרה (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mascara (province)  ............  Mascara (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Mascara (inhabited place)  ................  Mascara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1701
town (C)
department capital (C)
administrative center (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
מסקרה..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Mascara..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 908
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Mouaskar..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 908
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-116
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 908
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-116
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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