Kobe
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- Names
Kōbe
Kobe
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located along N shore of Ōsaka Bay; is famed as ancient cultural & religious center; Hiogo was prominent port of Ashikaga period 14th-16th cen. under powerful shogunate; flourished 19th cen.; damaged in WW II; devastated by earthquake in 1995.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Death Toll, New York Times (1995); Times Atlas of the World (1992); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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