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ID: 7001115
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001115
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mombasa (inhabited place)  Mombasa (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 04 04 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -4.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 039 40 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 39.6667  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Mombasa Island with links to the mainland; visited in 1498 by Vasco da Gama; controlled by Portuguese 1529-1698; during 18th cen. subject to Oman, whose local representative became independent leader of Zanzibar; part of Zanzibar until 1887.

Names:
Mombasa (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Kenya (nation)  ........  Kenya (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Mombasa (county)  ............  Mombasa (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Mombasa (inhabited place)  ................  Mombasa (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by traders 11th cen.
town (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
market center (C)
industrial center (C)
municipality (C)  ............  since 1928
capital (H)  ............  of E Africa Protectorate 1887

Sources and Contributors:
Mombasa..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 609
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 240
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 130
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 601
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 779
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 609
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 240
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 130
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 601
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 779
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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