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ID: 1088202
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1088202
Record Type:
administrative
Garoua (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 09 17 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 9.2833
decimal degrees
Long: 013 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 13.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by Modibbo Adama, the Fulani āmir; industries include ginning, dyeing & spinning; held by Germany, 1984-1915; captured by British & French in 1915; site of a textile research company & a junior college.
Names:
Garoua
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Garua
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Cameroun
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nord
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Garoua
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 19th cen.
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
river settlement (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Garoua..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
69
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
428
Garua..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
V, 130
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
V, 130
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
69
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
428
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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