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ID: 7003891
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003891
Record Type:
administrative
Najrān (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 044 19 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located close to the border with Yemen; was seat of bishop of early Nestorian Christians; is an agricultural center for crops & livestock.
Names:
Najrān
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Najrân
(
C
,
V
)
Najran
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
As Suʻūdīyyah
(nation) (
P
)
............
Najrān
(province) (
P
)
................
Najrān
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
important center by medieval period
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
oasis (
C
)
episcopal see (
H
)
............
of early Nestorians
Sources and Contributors:
Najrân..........
[
BHA
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
Najran..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
350
Najrān..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
694
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
435
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
694
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
435
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
350
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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