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ID: 1091608
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091608
Record Type:
administrative
Moçambique (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 03 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -15.0500
decimal degrees
Long: 040 45 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 40.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport located on a small coral island in the Mozambique Channel; was flourishing Arab town when Portuguese arrived in 1490s. The island itself was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1991.
Names:
Moçambique
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Mozambique
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mozambique
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nampula
(province) (
P
)
................
Ilha de Moçambique
(island) (
P
)
....................
Moçambique
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 15th cen.
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
until 1907
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Moçambique..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Mozambique..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
798
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
798
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-)
accessed 27 April 2009
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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