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ID: 7006246
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006246
Record Type:
administrative
Maranhão (state)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -5.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 045 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -45.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located S of Equator & SE of Amazon Basin; populated by Tupinambá Amerindians since 16th cen.; occupied by French, Dutch & Portuguese from 16th-19th cen.; population has large number of African slave descendants.
Names:
Maranhão
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Estado do Maranhão
(
C
,
V
)
Maranhão, Estado do
(
C
,
V
)
Maranham
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maranhão
(state) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nordeste
(region (geographic)) (
P
)
................
Maranhão
(state) (
P
)
Place Types:
state (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since 1889
first level subdivision (
C
)
agricultural land (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Estado do Maranhão..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2013
Maranham..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2013
Maranhão..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 812-813
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 January 2013
Maranhão, Estado do..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 812-813
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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