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ID: 7005274
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005274
Record Type:
administrative
New Amsterdam (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 057 30 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -57.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Government seat for Dutch colonies 1790; passed to British 1803; connected to nation's capital by rail & road.
Names:
New Amsterdam
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Fort Sint Andries
(
H
,
V
)
............
original
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guyana
(nation) (
P
)
............
East Berbice-Corentyne
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
New Amsterdam
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
built by Dutch 1740
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fort Sint Andries..........
[
VP
]
................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 629
New Amsterdam..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
613
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 629
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
138
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
613
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 629
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
138
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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