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ID: 7000395
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000395
Record Type:
administrative
Quelimane (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 53 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -17.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 036 51 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 36.8500
decimal degrees
Note:
One of the oldest settlements in Zambézia province; had slave market in 18th & 19th cen.; important industry is fishing; exports tea, sugar, sisal, corn, cotton, tobacco, copra & coir; has one of world's largest coconut plantations.
Names:
Quelimane
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Quilimane
(
C
,
V
)
Kilimane
(
C
,
V
)
Kilmain
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Moçambique
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zambézia
(province) (
P
)
................
Quelimane
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a trading station by Portuguese in 1544
town (
C
)
............
of Portuguese colony, 1761
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Kilimane..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 852
Kilmain..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 852
Quelimane..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 852
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
160
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
996
Quilimane..........
[
VP
]
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
996
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
IX, 852
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
160
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
996
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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