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ID: 1092117
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092117
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Keffi (inhabited place)  Keffi (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 08 50 52 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 8.8486  decimal degrees
Long: 007 52 22 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.8736  decimal degrees

Note: Founded by Fulani warrior; constantly raided for slaves 19th cen.; became headquarters of Nasarawa Province of British 1902; attacked by British 1903; chief crops are millet, sorghum, yams & cotton; inhabitants engaged mostly in tin & columbite mining.

Names:
Keffi (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Nigeria (nation)  ........  Nigeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nasarawa (state)  ............  Nasarawa (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Keffi (inhabited place)  ................  Keffi (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1800
town (C)
mining center (C)
agricultural center (C)
college (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Keffi..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 784
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 98
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 784
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 18 December 2014
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 98
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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