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ID: 1089615
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1089615
Record Type:
administrative
Cotonou (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 21 55 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.3650
decimal degrees
Long: 002 25 06 E
degrees minutes
Long: 2.4180
decimal degrees
Note:
Was center of small African state; occupied by French in 1883 to prevent British takeover; former capital of French colony Dahomey; industrial center for brewing, textiles & palm-oil processing, & de facto capital of Benin.
Names:
Cotonou
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kotonou
(
C
,
V
)
Appi
(
C
,
V
)
Catonou
(
C
,
V
)
Kotonu
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Benin
(nation) (
P
)
............
Littoral
(department) (
P
)
................
Cotonou
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
center for 18th-cen. African kingdom
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
trade center (
H
)
............
established 1851
Sources and Contributors:
Appi..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2014
Catonou..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2014
Cotonou..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 208
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
III, 668
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2014
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-41
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
295
Kotonou..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 208
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2014
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
295
Kotonu..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 208
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
III, 668
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 23 April 2014
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-41
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
295
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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