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ID: 7000505
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000505
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Katsina (inhabited place)  Katsina (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 13.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 007 32 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 7.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Exports leather, hides, peanuts & cotton; one of earliest Hausa states; ancient seat of learning; taken by British 1904; became important intellectual & trans-Saharan caravan center of the Hausa states 16th-18th cen.; weaving & dyeing are traditional.

Names:
Katsina (preferred,C,V)  ............ named for Kacinna, wife of Durbawa king

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

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded about 1100
town (C)
state capital (C)
commercial center (C)
trade center (C)
college center (C)
capital (H)  ............  of ancient Kingdom of Katsina

Sources and Contributors:
Katsina..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 685
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 764
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 97
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 594
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1993) 685
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) VI, 764
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 97
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 594
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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