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ID: 7000860
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000860
Record Type:
administrative
Kimberley (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 28 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -28.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 024 46 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 24.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Diamond center of the world with Kimberley, De Beers & other renowned mines in the area; was besieged by Boer forces 1899-1900 during the Boer War; city has numerous memorials; iron, salt & gypsum are mined nearby.
Names:
Kimberley
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
............
named in 1873
קימברלי
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
............
Northern Cape
(province) (
P
)
................
Kimberley
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1871
city (
C
)
............
since 1912
mining center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Griqualand West, 1873-1880
Sources and Contributors:
קימברלי..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Kimberley..........
[
BHA
,
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 479
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 865
....................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
....................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
....................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
611
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 479
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 865
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
101
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
611
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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