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ID: 1089826
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089826
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gondar (inhabited place)  Gondar (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 12 36 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 12.6000  decimal degrees
Long: 037 27 57 E  degrees minutes   Long: 37.4667  decimal degrees

Note: Home to emperors 1632-1755; suffered greatly during civil wars 1750-1890; important center of the Ethiopian Church; population is mostly Christian, with Jewish & Muslim minorities; economy is based on subsistence farming, production of textiles & jewelry.

Names:
Gonder (preferred,C,V)
Gondar (C,V,English-P)
גונדר (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ethiopia (nation)  ........  Ethiopia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Amhara Regional State (state)  ............  Amhara Regional State (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Gondar (inhabited place)  ................  Gondar (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
regional capital (C)
transportation center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of Ethiopia, 1632-1855

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Ethiopian Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................  (World, Africa) [8711745]

Sources and Contributors:
גונדר..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gondar..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 357
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gonder..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 74
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 380
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) V, 357
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 24 November 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 74
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 380
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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