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ID: 1092557
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092557
Record Type:
administrative
Ziguinchor (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 34 58 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 12.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 016 16 15 W
degrees minutes
Long: -16.2719
decimal degrees
Note:
Harbor explored in 1457 by the Venetian sailor Ca Da Mosto, envoy of Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal; town ceded to France by the Portuguese in 1886; site of a peanut oil processing plant.
Names:
Ziguinchor
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Senegal
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ziguinchor
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Ziguinchor
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since Portugese exploration in ca. 1450
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ziguinchor..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
709
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 915
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
218
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
709
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 915
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 February 2015
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
218
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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