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ID: 1087365
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087365
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Arziw (inhabited place)  Arziw (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 000 19 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient Roman town; Almohad port 12th cen.; visited by merchants from Italy in the 1300s & 1400s; seized & fortified by Turks 16th cen.; taken by French 1833; annexed to France through treaty 1837; landing spot for Allied troops on November 8, 1942.

Names:
Arziw (preferred,C,V)
Arzew (C,V)
Arzeu (C,V)
Arsenaria (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-Jazā'ir (nation)  ........  Al-Jazā'ir (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Oran (province)  ............  Oran (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Arziw (inhabited place)  ................  Arziw (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since ancient Rome
town (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Arsenaria..........  [VP]
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 80
Arzeu..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
Arzew..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
Arziw..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
..............  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-9
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 51
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 612
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-9
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 80
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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