A name can carry a whole story.
A careful notebook, not a final dictionary. Source-attested names and archive vocabulary are kept separate from community language contributions awaiting review.
A stable identifier assigned when an archive or museum formally receives an item or group of items.
English archive vocabulary
Repository accession numbers often include meaningful punctuation and prefixes as part of the identifier.
The present name of the city formerly called Bathurst.
English place-name usage
Banjul received its present name in 1973. The exact date and the origin of the name remain under review.
Colonial-era name used for the city now called Banjul.
English historical place-name
Bathurst appears in historical titles, quotations, maps, and older captions. It refers to the city now called Banjul.
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English archive vocabulary
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English Hamanteh editorial vocabulary
Community review adds situated knowledge while allowing disagreements to remain visible. The reviewer and review date provide useful context.
The recorded permission conditions for storing, describing, and publishing a community-contributed item or recording.
English Hamanteh editorial vocabulary
Consent, copyright, and repository access are separate conditions. Public-domain status does not remove privacy concerns or the need for care with sensitive descriptions.
The person, family, or institution responsible for caring for an item or collection.
English archive vocabulary
A custodian may care for an item without owning its copyright or having permission to identify every person depicted.
Historic and living Banjul quarter at the city's south-eastern waterfront.
English place-name
The origin of the name is unresolved. One common account links it to the 1869 cholera epidemic, while archival research reports the name in use by 1837.
Historic Banjul quarter also recorded as Jolof Town and formerly called Melville Town.
English historical place-name spelling
Published accounts conflict over whether the name reflects Jola labourers or Wolof artisans. Sources also vary between Jolof and Joloff.
Term used in the Banjul heritage survey for a low-cost building tradition with woven walling and structural palm posts, often plastered.
Published local building term; language attribution not specified in the checked source
The checked source uses the lower-case spelling kirinting but does not establish its language origin, community pronunciation, or the full vocabulary for its materials and parts.
Add a spelling or pronunciationEarlier name associated in published sources with the quarter later called Jolof or Joloff Town.
English historical place-name
The area covered by this name may have changed between historical periods.
Add a spelling or pronunciationEarlier published name for the area later known as Half Die.
English historical place-name spelling
Historical sources also contain the spelling variants Moka and Moca. The variations may reflect different sources, periods, or conventions.
A recorded confidence level for where a photograph, event, building, or story belongs.
English Hamanteh editorial vocabulary
Useful certainty levels include exact, probable, city-wide only, and unknown. City-wide Bathurst evidence is not automatically evidence for Banjul South.
Historic Bathurst quarter associated in published histories with Luso-African merchants and Atlantic connections.
English historical place-name
The quarter name reflects a historical association and does not determine the ancestry of present residents or a precise modern boundary.
The documented history of who created, held, transferred, or cared for an item.
English archive vocabulary
Physical custody and digital-copy history can follow different paths. A current uploader is not automatically the creator or rights holder.
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English archive vocabulary
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Historic quarter associated in published histories with Bathurst's garrison and soldiers.
English historical place-name
The military association explains the historical name but does not define a current boundary or describe all residents.
The exact spelling found in a particular document, map, label, or recording transcript.
English Hamanteh editorial vocabulary
Source spelling preserves how a name appeared in a particular record, even when a reviewed preferred spelling is also available.
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English transcription vocabulary
A voice alone does not establish a person's name, family relationships, gender, or status.
Add a spelling or pronunciationIsland on which Banjul stands; also called Banjul Island in current usage.
English historical and geographic place-name
Historic maps use several abbreviations and punctuation styles for St Mary's Island.
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English transcription vocabulary
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English Hamanteh editorial vocabulary
An unverified gloss is a working interpretation whose proposer and evidence trail remain important until review is complete.
Add a spelling or pronunciationAnother spelling or historical name recorded for the same or a related place, person, or institution.
English archive vocabulary
Variant names may belong to different time periods or geographic extents even when sources connect them.
Add a spelling or pronunciationStreet name appearing in historical Bathurst sources and a circa 1905 postcard.
English historical street name
The circa 1905 postcard identifies Wellington Street, but its exact camera position and any later street-name equivalence remain unverified.
Add a spelling or pronunciationA historical alternate name reported for Mocam Town or Half Die.
English historical place-name
The term reflects colonial framing and appears here as a historical variant rather than a neutral description.
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