Nassau (Bahamas) - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress
- ️Wed Sep 12 1979
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Variants
Nassau, Bahamas
City of Nassau (Bahamas)
Nassau City (Bahamas)
Nassau Port (Bahamas)
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Descriptor
- Cities and towns
Associated Locale
- Bahamas
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Earlier Established Forms
Nassau, Bahamas
Sources
found: GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 25°04ʹ60ʺN 077°21ʹ00ʺW)
found: Britannica online, September 12, 2015(Nassau, originally called Charles Towne, capital of The Bahamas, West Indies, a port on the northeastern coast of New Providence Island; it was established as Charles Towne in the mid-17th century and took its present name in the 1690s from a family name of King William III of England, but it was not laid out until 1729)
found: Wikipedia, September 12, 2015(Nassau, Bahamas; City of Nassau; capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas; formerly known as Charles Town; it was burned to the ground by the Spanish in 1684. Rebuilt, it was renamed Nassau in 1695; 25°4ʹN 77°20ʹW)
found: GEOnet, September 12, 2015(Nassau; variants: City of Nassau; Nassau City; capital of a political entity, Bahamas, The; 25°04ʹ05ʺN, 077°18ʹ36ʺW (25.067951, -77.309929))
found: The Bahamas Tourist Office UK official website, September 12, 2015(Charles Town on New Providence Island was burnt to the ground by the Spanish in 1684, but later rebuilt and renamed Nassau in 1695) - http://www.bahamas.co.uk/about-the-bahamas/facts/history
found: Pirates of the Caribbean wiki, viewed September 12, 2015(Nassau, originally named Charles Town and often referred to as Nassau Port, was the only port on the island of New Providence; originally a privateer anchorage named Charles Town, it was burned down by the Spaniards in 1684 and was renamed Nassau in 1695 once it had been rebuilt) - http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Nassau
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1979-09-12: new
2015-09-13: revised
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