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ID: 7002267
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002267
Record Type:
administrative
Golan Heights (annex)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 035 45 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Hilly region in NW Syria; annexed by Israel in 1981; main occupants are Syrian Druze & Sunnis, Palestinian refugees & Jewish settlers.
Names:
Golan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Al Jawlān
(
C
,
V
)
Golan Heights
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
רמת הגולן
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Syria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Qunayṭirah
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Golan Heights
(annex) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Israel
(nation) (
P
)
............
Golan Heights
(annex) (
P
)
Place Types:
annex (
preferred
,
C
)
............
of Israel, since December 1981
second level subdivision (
C
)
controlled region (
C
)
............
by Israel, since 1967
escarpment (
C
)
area (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
רמת הגולן..........
[
IMJ
]
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Al Jawlān..........
[
VP
]
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
448
Golan..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 35
Golan Heights..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
..........................
Holy Land, National Geographic (1989)
map supplement
..........................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..........................
Middle East, National Geographic (1991)
map supplement
..........................
Mideast Issues, Los Angeles Times (1993)
..........................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..........................
Peace, Los Angeles Times (1993)
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
448
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Holy Land, National Geographic (1989)
map supplement
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Middle East, National Geographic (1991)
map supplement
..................
Mideast Issues, Los Angeles Times (1993)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Peace, Los Angeles Times (1993)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 35
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
448
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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