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ID: 1091827
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1091827
Record Type:
administrative
Abeokuta (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 09 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 003 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 3.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by Egba refugees from slavers & civil wars; later was settled by Yoruba refugees & Anglican Baptist missionaries; clashed with Dahomey (Benin) in trade wars in mid-19th cen.; was incorporated into British colony of Nigeria in 1914.
Names:
Abeokuta
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ogun
(state) (
P
)
................
Abeokuta
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded ca. 1830
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of the Egbas, 1840s
mission (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Abeokuta..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 27
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
848
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
2
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
I, 27
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 18 December 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
848
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
2
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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