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ID: 7001619
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001619
Record Type:
administrative
Khartoum (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 032 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 32.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
City grew into garrisoned army town; destroyed by Mahdists 1885; rebuilt by British 1898; served as seat of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government until 1956; produces textiles, gum & glass; has several churches, cathedrals & mosques.
Names:
Khartoum
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Al-Khurṭūm
(
C
,
V
)
El Khartûm
(
C
,
V
)
Al-Kharṭūm
(
C
,
V
)
Khartum
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sudan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Khartoum
(state) (
P
)
................
Khartoum
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
an Egyptian army camp, 1821
city (
C
)
............
founded 1823
national capital (
C
)
............
established 1956
provincial capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Sudan
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Africa) [1000201]
Sources and Contributors:
Al-Kharṭūm..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-5
Al-Khurṭūm..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 833
El Khartûm..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
329
Khartoum..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
99
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
606
Khartum..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-86
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
329
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 833
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-5; I-86
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
99
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
606
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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