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ID: 7001279
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001279
Record Type:
administrative
Sīdī Barrānī (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 31 36 45 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 31.6125
decimal degrees
Long: 025 55 32 E
degrees minutes
Long: 25.9255
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of great fighting in North Africa campaign during World War II; captured by Italians, then by by British in 1940; taken by Rommel's army 1941 & recaptured 1942 in Rommel's retreat.
Names:
Sīdī Barrānī
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Sidi Barrani
(
C
,
O
)
El Bomba
(
NA
,
V
)
Sidi el-Barráni
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Egypt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maţrūḩ
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Sīdī Barrānī
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
El Bomba..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Sīdī Barrānī..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1113
Sidi Barrani..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
354
Sidi el-Barráni..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-302847
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
354
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1113
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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