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ID: 1087434
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087434
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of El Boulaïda (inhabited place)  El Boulaïda (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 002 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Was a Roman military station; town was founded on ruins by Arab refugees from Andalucia 16th cen.; mosque constructed by order of Khayr ad-Dīn; famous pleasure resort during the Ottoman Empire; damaged by earthquakes 19th cen.; occupied by France 1839.

Names:
El Boulaïda (preferred,C,V)  ............ after 1981
Blida (C,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 Blida (province)  ............  Blida (province) (P)
Hierarchy of El Boulaïda (inhabited place)  ................  El Boulaïda (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  a military outpost in Roman times; present town founded 1553 AD
town (C)
department capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Blida..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107-108
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 282
El Boulaïda..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107-108
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 282
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-51
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107-108
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 282
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-51
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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