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ID: 1092178
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092178
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mubi (inhabited place)  Mubi (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 10 16 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 10.2667  decimal degrees
Long: 013 17 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 13.2833  decimal degrees

Note: Incorporated into Adama's Fulani kingdom of Fumbina (later Adamawa); subjected to slave raids 1890s; taken by Germans 1903; captured by British 1914; placed in British Cameroons 1922 & administered as part of Yola province; included in Gongola state 1976.

Names:
Mubi (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 Adamawa (state)  ............  Adamawa (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Mubi (inhabited place)  ................  Mubi (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded late 18th cen.
town (C)
administrative center (H)  ............  of German Kamerun until 1914
capital (H)  ............  of Sardauna province, 1961

Sources and Contributors:
Mubi..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 390
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 133
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VIII, 390
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 133
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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