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ID: 1092230
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092230
Record Type:
administrative
Onitsha (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 006 47 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by adventurers from Benin; became political center of Ibo Kingdom of Onitsha with a rare monarchical system; the chief port for goods coming from Niger Delta; palm oil & kernels are most important exports; site of few cathedrals.
Names:
Onitsha
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Anambra
(state) (
P
)
................
Onitsha
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded early 17th cen.
town (
C
)
market center (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
college center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Onitsha..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 956
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
145
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
892
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VIII, 956
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
145
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
892
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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