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ID: 7016726
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016726

 

Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Mariana Islands (island group)  Mariana Islands (island group)

Note: Group of 15 islands forming N Marianas & Guam; charted by Magellan in 1527, named for alleged "ladrones" (thieves) among the native people who were accused of pilfering by Spanish; all but Guam ceded to Germany 1899, when Guam went to United States.

Names:
Mariana Islands (preferred,C,O,LC,O)
Marianas (C,O)
Marianas Islands (C,V)
Las Marianas (C,O)  ............ for Mariana of Austria, 1668
Islas de los Ladrones (H,O)  ............ early 16th cen.-1668
Ladrones (H,O)
Ladrone Islands (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mariana Islands (island group)  ........  Mariana Islands (island group) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Oceania (continent)  ....  Oceania (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Micronesia (general region)  ........  Micronesia (general region) (P)
Hierarchy of Mariana Islands (island group)  ............  Mariana Islands (island group) (P)

Place Types:
island group (preferred, C)
controlled region (H)  ............  Spanish, early 16th cen.-1899

Sources and Contributors:
Islas de los Ladrones..........  [VP]
......................................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 569
Ladrone Islands..........  [VP]
.............................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 569
Ladrones..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
Las Marianas..........  [VP]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 569
Mariana Islands..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  LC Subject Authority Headings. [online] (2002-) accessed 14 August 2008
.............................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) Pl. 109
Marianas..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 569
.................  LC Subject Authority Headings. [online] (2002-) accessed 14 August 2008
Marianas Islands..........  [VP]
.............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 569
..................  LC Subject Authority Headings. [online] (2002-) accessed 14 August 2008
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) Pl. 109
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 347
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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