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ID: 1094846
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094846
Record Type:
administrative
Tabora (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 04 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -5.0667
decimal degrees
Long: 032 49 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 32.8167
decimal degrees
Note:
Former capital of Nyamwezi peoples; before European colonial rule it was the most significant trade connection between coast & Congo Basin; captured by Belgian troops in World War II in 1916; main cash crops are tobacco, vegetables & cassava.
Names:
Tabora
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kazeh
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Tanzania
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tabora Region
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Tabora
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1820; settled earlier
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
administrative center (
H
)
............
of German E Africa, 1891-1914
Sources and Contributors:
Kazeh..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 484
Tabora..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 907
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 484
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
192
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1186
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 907
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
XI, 484
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
192
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1186
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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