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ID: 1087486
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087486
Record Type:
administrative
Jijel (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 36 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 36.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 005 43 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as Phoenician trading port; held by Romans, Arabs & in the 16th cen. by the pirate Barbarossa; corsair base until seized by France 1839; original town destroyed by earthquake 1856; industries include steel production & leather tanning.
Names:
Jijel
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Jijelli
(
C
,
V
)
Djidjelli
(
C
,
V
)
Igilgili
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al-Jazā'ir
(nation) (
P
)
............
Jijel
(province) (
P
)
................
Jijel
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Phoenicians
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Djidjelli..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 552
Igilgili..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
Jijel..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 552
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
92
Jijelli..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 445
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VI, 552
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
92
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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