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ID: 1094499
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1094499
Record Type:
administrative
Wadi Halfa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 48 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.8000
decimal degrees
Long: 031 21 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located just east of the Nile River and in the ancient region of Nubia; important today both as a center of commerce and archaeological importance with ruins of the Buhen and Egyptian monuments.
Names:
Wadi Halfa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Wādī Ḥalfā'
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Sudan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Northern
(state) (
P
)
................
Wadi Halfa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Wādī Ḥalfā'..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 July 2010
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-187
Wadi Halfa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
211
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 July 2010
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 27 July 2010
..................
Phillipson, African Archaeology (1985)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-187
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
211
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
access 27 July 2010
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