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ID: 6006673
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6006673
Record Type:
physical
Zanzibar Island (island)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 09 57 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -6.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 039 19 58 E
degrees minutes
Long: 39.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located off coast of E Africa in Indian Ocean; holds same name as former sultanate; Africans were 1st immigrants, followed by Persians in 10th cen.; Arabs became island's aristocracy by expanding volume of slave trade.
Names:
Zanzibar Island
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Zanzibar
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zanzibar Central/South
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Zanzibar Island
(island) (
P
)
Place Types:
island (
preferred
,
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Zanzibar
.......... (former administrative division)
..................................
(World, Africa, Tanzania) [1009804]
Sources and Contributors:
Zanzibar..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 895
Zanzibar Island..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 895-896
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1372
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 895; XII, 895-896
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 6 October 2014
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1372
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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