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ID: 1079401
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1079401
Record Type:
administrative
An-Najaf (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 31.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 044 20 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
One of Iraq's two holy cities; prospered after 10th century; is traditional home of Shīʻī resistance against Sunnī rulers in Baghdad; the resistance has been source of tension between Sunnī government of Iraq and the Shīʻī in Iran.
Names:
An-Najaf
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Najaf
(
C
,
O
)
Nedjef
(
C
,
O
)
Neshed Ali
(
C
,
O
)
Meshed ʻAli
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al-ʻIrāq
(nation) (
P
)
............
An Najaf
(governorate) (
P
)
................
An-Najaf
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 791 by caliph Hārūn ar-Rashīd
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
An-Najaf..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Meshed ʻAli..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
Najaf..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 489
Nedjef..........
[
VP
]
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
Neshed Ali..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 489
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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