Yokohama
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- Names
Yokohama
Iokoama
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Visited by Commodore Perry 1854; site of foreign settlement after 1859; harbor completed 1896; extraterritorial rights of foreign settlement abolished 1899; almost destroyed by earthquake & fire 1923; largely destroyed by US bombing 1945, later rebuilt.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cassell's German Dictionary (1982); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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