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ID: 1087434
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087434
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of El Boulaïda (inhabited place)  El Boulaïda (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 002 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 2.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Was a Roman military station; town was founded on ruins by Arab refugees from Andalucia 16th cen.; mosque constructed by order of Khayr ad-Dīn; famous pleasure resort during the Ottoman Empire; damaged by earthquakes 19th cen.; occupied by France 1839.

Names:
El Boulaïda (preferred,C,V)  ............ after 1981
Blida (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Algeria (nation)  ........  Algeria (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Blida (province)  ............  Blida (province) (P)
Hierarchy of El Boulaïda (inhabited place)  ................  El Boulaïda (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  a military outpost in Roman times; present town founded 1553 AD
town (C)
department capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Blida..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107-108
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 282
El Boulaïda..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107-108
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 282
.......................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-51
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 107-108
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985) II, 282
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-51
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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