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ID: 7002913
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002913
Record Type:
administrative
Abu Dhabi (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 24 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 24.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 054 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 54.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
There was no settlement on this site until tribesmen of Āl bū Falāh clan founded the town; laid out in geometric grid pattern; before 20th cen., chief industry was pearl diving & trade; modern economy involves oil-related industries.
Names:
Abū Ẓaby
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Abū Z̧abī
(
C
,
V
)
Abū Zabi
(
C
,
V
)
Abu Dhabi
(
C
,
O
,
English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Arab Emirates
(nation) (
P
)
............
Abu Dhabi
(emirate) (
P
)
................
Abu Dhabi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Arab Emirates
(nation) (
P
)
............
Abu Dhabi
(emirate) (
P
)
................
Baḥrānī, Ḥālat al-
(island) (
P
)
....................
Abu Dhabi
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1761
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
provisional, currently
state capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
United Arab Emirates
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Asia) [1000143]
Sources and Contributors:
Abu Dhabi..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 45
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
4
Abū Zabi..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
4
Abū Z̧abī..........
[
VP
]
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 33
Abū Ẓaby..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
2
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
2
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 45
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
plate 33
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
4
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
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