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ID: 1090569
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1090569
Record Type:
administrative
Maseru (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 19 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -29.3167
decimal degrees
Long: 027 29 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 27.4833
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by Basotho nation chief, Moshesh; the only urban center of Lesotho; linked with South African railway system, providing an outlet for farm produce, trade & transport of laborers; site of National University of Lesotho.
Names:
Maseru
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Lesotho
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maseru
(national district) (
P
)
................
Maseru
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1869
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
urban center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Lesotho
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [7001660]
Sources and Contributors:
Maseru..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 909
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
121
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
737
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 909
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
121
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
737
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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