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ID: 1092137
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092137
Record Type:
administrative
Lafia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 008 34 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 8.5667
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally site of Arago people; became part of Benne-Palteau State 1967; allocated to Plateau State 1976; collecting point for sesame seeds, soybeans; trades in yams, sorghum, millet & cotton; cotton weaving & dyeing are traditional.
Names:
Lafia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lafia Beri-Beri
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nasarawa
(state) (
P
)
................
Lafia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
market center (
C
)
............
since 1881
trade center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of local chiefdom, 19th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Lafia..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
107
Lafia Beri-Beri..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 98
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
VII, 98
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
107
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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