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ID: 7000538
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000538
Record Type:
administrative
Sokoto (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 02 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.0333
decimal degrees
Long: 005 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 5.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Military headquarters of Fulani holy war 1804-1805; spiritual headquarters of Fulani people 1817; famous for leather products & pottery; trades in cotton, slaves, sorghum, civet, brass articles, spices & kola nuts.
Names:
Sokoto
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
סוקוטו
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sokoto
(state) (
P
)
................
Sokoto
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled in pre-colonial era
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Fulani Empire, 1809
state (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
סוקוטו..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Sokoto..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 940
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
186
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
848
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
X, 940
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
186
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
848
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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