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ID: 7016478
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7016478
Record Type:
administrative
Bengkulu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 46 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -3.7667
decimal degrees
Long: 102 16 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 102.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Was site of 17th-cen. British trading post; Fort of Marlborough constructed 1710; passed to Dutch under Treaty of London 1824; exports silver, gold, coffee, pepper, corn & cinchona bark; produces textiles, pottery, tiles & baskets.
Names:
Bengkulu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Bencoolen
(
C
,
O
)
Benkulen
(
H
,
O
)
Benkoelen
(
H
,
O
)
Bengkoelen
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Indonesia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bengkulu
(province) (
P
)
................
Bengkulu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
developed as trading post in 17th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bencoolen..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 101
Bengkoelen..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 94
Bengkulu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 101
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
25
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
541
Benkoelen..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 94
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 101
Benkulen..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 94
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 94
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 101
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
25
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
541
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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