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ID: 7018048
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018048
Record Type:
administrative
Masqaṭ (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 23 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 23.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 058 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 58.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated on Gulf of Oman; under influence of Persians 6th cen. BC; occupied by Portuguese 1508-1650 & by Persians 1650-1741; important sultanate mid-1800s; dates, dried fish & mother-of-pearl are exported.
Names:
Masqaṭ
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Masqat
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Muscat
(
C
,
V
)
Maskat
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
ʻUmān
(nation) (
P
)
............
Masqaṭ
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Masqaṭ
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient settlement
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
regional center (
C
)
port (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Muscat and Oman, Sultanate of
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................
(World, Asia) [8711810]
capital of ....
ʻUmān
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Asia) [1000131]
Sources and Contributors:
Maskat..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
737
Masqaṭ..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
121
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
737
Masqat..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
737
Muscat..........
[
VP
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
675
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
675
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
121
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
737
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
737
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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