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ID: 1087402
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087402
Record Type:
administrative
Bouïra (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 003 55 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 3.9167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located SE of the nation's capital; near the watershed of Oued Isser & Oued Soummam; market center for an area with low-yield cereal & olive crops; name means "the small wells" in Arabic.
Names:
Bouïra
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bouira
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al-Jazā'ir
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bouira
(province) (
P
)
................
Bouïra
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
............
since 1974
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bouïra..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 420
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
32
Bouira..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 420
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 420
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
32
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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