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ID: 7000498
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000498
Record Type:
administrative
Ile-Ife (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 28 55 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.4824
decimal degrees
Long: 004 33 36 E
degrees minutes
Long: 4.5603
decimal degrees
Note:
Iron Age site; oldest town of Yoruba people who consider it a holy city & the legendary birthplace of mankind; artisans produced terra-cotta heads & bronze pieces in 12th-13th cen. for which the Ife Kingdom is well known.
Names:
Ile-Ife
(
preferred
,
H
,
V
)
Ife-lodun
(
C
,
V
)
Ife
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Osun
(state) (
P
)
................
Ile-Ife
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established kingdom, 11th cen.
town (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
............
for the Yoruba people
Sources and Contributors:
Ife..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
88
Ife-lodun..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 244
Ile-Ife..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 244
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 18 December 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 244
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 18 December 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
88
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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