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ID: 1087497
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087497
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Laghouat (inhabited place)  Laghouat (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 33 49 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 33.8167  decimal degrees
Long: 002 55 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.9167  decimal degrees

Note: Banū Hilāl invaders with support of Egyptian Fātimids crossed the area 11th cen.; controlled by Morocco 17th cen.; taken by Ottoman Empire 1786; conquered by France 1852; located on the route connecting the nation's capital with central Africa.

Names:
Laghouat (preferred,C,V,English-P)
לגואט (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Laghouat (province)  ............  Laghouat (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Laghouat (inhabited place)  ................  Laghouat (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled 11th cen.
town (C)
department capital (C)
oasis (C)

Sources and Contributors:
לגואט..........  [IMJ]
..............  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Laghouat..........  [IMJ Preferred, VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 498
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 100
.................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 107
Subject: .....  [IMJ, VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 498
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VII, 100
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 107
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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