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ID: 6001050
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6001050
Record Type:
administrative
Bussa (submerged site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 13 51 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.2300
decimal degrees
Long: 004 28 31 E
degrees minutes
Long: 4.4750
decimal degrees
Note:
Former town in what is now Nigeria. Bussa was reached by the explorer Mungo Park ca. 1805-06, who died there. The town no longer exists, and was covered by Lake Kainji.
Names:
Bussa
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Boussa
(
C
,
V
)
Bussang
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nigeria
(nation) (
P
)
............
Niger
(state) (
P
)
................
Bussa
(submerged site) (
P
)
Place Types:
submerged site (
preferred
,
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Boussa..........
[
VP
]
.................
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
Bussa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
Bussang..........
[
VP
]
.................
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 15 July 2019
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
339
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 15 July 2019
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