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ID: 1094646
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094646
Record Type:
administrative
Kilwa Kivinje (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -8.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 039 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 39.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on coast; was terminus for southern caravan route from Lake Nyasa; infamous as slave port, exporting 20,000 slaves annually during 1860s.
Names:
Kilwa Kivinje
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Africa
(continent) (
P
)
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Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
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Lindi Region
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Kilwa Kivinje
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was medieval center
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kilwa Kivinje..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Tanzania: Major Centres (1998)
accessed 04/13/99
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Tanzania: Major Centres (1998)
accessed 04/13/99
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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