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ID: 7001460
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001460
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Melaka (inhabited place)  Melaka (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 02 14 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 2.2333  decimal degrees
Long: 102 14 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 102.2333  decimal degrees

Note: Was conquered for Portugal by Alfonso d'Albuquerque in 1511, thus ending Malay rule; was controlled by Dutch 1641-1795; held by Great Britain 1795-1802 and 1811-1818; joined Straits Settlements with Penang and Singapore in 1826; was taken by Japan in WW II. Grouped with George Town as "Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca," the town is part of a designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Names:
Melaka (preferred,C,V)
Malaka (C,V)
Malacca (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Malaysia (nation)  ........  Malaysia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Melaka (state)  ............  Melaka (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Melaka (inhabited place)  ................  Melaka (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Straits Settlements (former territory/colony/dependent state)  ........  Straits Settlements (former territory/colony/dependent state) (P)
Hierarchy of Melaka (inhabited place)  ............  Melaka (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 14th cen.
city (C)
state capital (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Malacca..........  [BHA, VP]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 1024
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 713
Malaka..........  [VP]
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-104
Melaka..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 1024
.................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 125
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 713
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Columbia Encyclopedia (1975)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VII, 1024
..................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-104
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 125
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 713
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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