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ID: 7002905
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002905
Record Type:
administrative
Ra's al-Khaymah (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 47 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 25.7833
decimal degrees
Long: 055 57 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 55.9500
decimal degrees
Note:
Capital & only true urban settlement of Ras al Khaimah emirate; long an important base for the Qawāsim pirate shaykhs; Portuguese had a fort nearby in the 16th century but were expelled by Persians in 1622; captured by British in 1819.
Names:
Ra's al-Khaymah
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ra's al Khaymah
(
C
,
V
)
Ras al-Khaimah
(
C
,
V
)
Ras al Khaimah
(
C
,
V
)
Julfar
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al Imārāt
(nation) (
P
)
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Ra's al Khaymah
(emirate) (
P
)
................
Ra's al-Khaymah
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
a port since ancient times
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Julfar..........
[
VP
]
.................
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
323
Ras al-Khaimah..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1004
Ras al Khaimah..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 945
Ra's al-Khaymah..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Ra's al Khaymah..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
534
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 33
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
534
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 945
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 33
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1004
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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