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ID: 7001244
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001244
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bejaïa (inhabited place)  Bejaïa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 49 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.8167  decimal degrees
Long: 005 03 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 5.0500  decimal degrees

Note: Fortified city of Genseric the Vandal 5th cen.; Berber settlement of the Bejaïa tribe; became a Hammādid capital 1067; pirate base in Middle Ages; introduced the wax candle to Europe through trade (origin of French "bougie"; taken by France 1833.

Names:
Bejaïa (preferred,C,V)
Bejaia (C,V)
Bougie (H,V)
Bugia (H,V)
Saldae (H,V)

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  Punic settlement in Mauretania Caesariensis, later a Roman colony
town (C)
department capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bejaïa..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Bejaia..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 338
Bougie..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Bugia..........  [VP]
..............  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 339
Saldae..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
.................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 797
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 89
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 53-54
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979) 797
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 338; 339
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 129
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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