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ID: 7000439
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000439
Record Type:
administrative
Marka (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 42 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 1.7000
decimal degrees
Long: 044 47 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
Established by Persian or Arab traders; first Somalis came to the area in the 13th cen.; ruled by the Somali clan subgroup, the Bimal, in the 17th cen.; today is export center for bananas.
Names:
Marka
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Merca
(
C
,
V
)
Merka
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Somalia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Lower Shebele
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Marka
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
by the 10th cen.
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Marka..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 858
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
122
Merca..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 858
Merka..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 858
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 858
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
122
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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