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ID: 1087560
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087560
Record Type:
administrative
Skikda (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 006 54 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 6.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
The modern town of Skikda was founded in 1838 by French Marshal Sylvain-Charles Valée as a port for Constantine (modern Qacentina city), on the site of the Carthaginian colony of Rusicada, which was later an important port under the Romans.
Names:
Skikda
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Philippeville
(
H
,
V
)
Rusicada
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient Carthaginian colony & Roman port
Rusicade
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Algeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Skikda
(province) (
P
)
................
Skikda
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
probably settled by Phoenicians in ancient times
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Philippeville..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 869
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 864
Rusicada..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 869
Rusicade..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 864
Skikda..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 869
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 864-865
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
184
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 869
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 864; X, 864-865
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
184
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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