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ID: 1093895
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1093895
Record Type:
administrative
Umtata (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 35 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -31.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 028 47 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally functioned as buffer zone between warring Pondo & Tembu people; became headquarters of Transkeian Territories General Council 1903; most inhabitants practice subsistence agriculture & raise livestock.
Names:
Umtata
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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Eastern Cape
(province) (
P
)
................
Umtata
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Europeans 1869
town (
C
)
............
proclaimed 1882
capital (
C
)
............
since 1976
agricultural center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Umtata..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 124
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
204
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1225
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 124
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
204
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1225
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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