Baum Locations Gazetteer · City/Kingdom
Gilgad
Also called: City of Gilgad · Kingdom of Rinkitink
A city/kingdom explicitly named in Baum's Oz corpus.
Enchanted
Scene
Explicit evidence
Gazetteer
Location record
- Knowledge ID
- LOC-0049
- Canonical name
- Gilgad
- Type
- City/Kingdom
- Status
- Enchanted
- Narrative presence
- Scene
- Parent
- —
- First appearance
- Rinkitink in Oz · Chapter 1
Baum evidence
First matched evidence
…the valuable pearls, to the Kingdom of Rinkitink, where there was a city called Gilgad, in which King Rinkitink's palace stood on a rocky headland and served, with its high towers, as a lighthouse to guide sailors to the harbor.
Cross-book occurrences