Singapore
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- Names
Singapore
Singapur
Tumasik
Shonan
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Was noted 13th-cen. Malay city; destroyed by Javanese 1365; Thomas Raffles founded a new settlement here in 1819; was property of East India Company in 1824; British colony 1946; part of Malaysia 1963-1965.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Petit Robert II, Noms (1989); Rand McNally Atlas (1986); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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