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ID: 1094866
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094866
Record Type:
administrative
Zanzibar (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 10 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -6.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 039 12 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 39.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on West shore of the island of Zanzibar; Sultan Saʻīd ibn Sulṭān moved capital of his empire here from Muscat on the Arabian Peninsula; prospered in the 19th century as a center for Arab and European activities in E Africa.
Names:
Zanzibar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Zanzibar City
(
C
,
V
)
Unguja
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zanzibar Urban/West
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Zanzibar
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
traders arrived ca. 1st cen.
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Sultanate of Zanzibar, 1824
Sources and Contributors:
Unguja..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 17 January 2006
Zanzibar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1046
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 895
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
221
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1186
Zanzibar City..........
[
VP
]
..........................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 17 January 2006
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1046
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XII, 895
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 17 January 2006
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
221
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1186
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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