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ID: 7000436
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7000436
Record Type:
administrative
Berbera (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 045 02 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 45.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Was a medieval Muslim settlement of the former state of Adal; occupied by Mocha sharīfs in the 17th cen., by Egypt in 1875 & by Great Britain in 1884; exports gum arabic, frankincense, myrrh, ghee & hides.
Names:
Berbera
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Somalia
(nation) (
P
)
............
West Galbeed
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Berbera
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since Classical Antiquity
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
of British Somaliland until 1941
Sources and Contributors:
Berbera..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 95
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 118
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
26
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 95
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
II, 118
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
26
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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