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ID: 1092913
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1092913
Record Type:
administrative
Brakpan (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 15 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -26.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 028 22 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 28.3667
decimal degrees
Note:
E of Johannesburg; part of the East Rand area mining & industrial center within the Witwatersrand; grew quickly after coal & gold were discovered in 1888 & 1905; has residential suburban areas separate from the diversified industrial sites.
Names:
Brakpan
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1886
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
South Africa
(nation) (
P
)
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Gauteng
(province) (
P
)
................
Brakpan
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
developed rapidly after discovery of coal & gold in late 1800s
town (
C
)
............
proclaimed officially, 1919
Sources and Contributors:
Brakpan..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 467
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 467
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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