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ID: 6004600
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6004600
Record Type:
administrative
Peikthano (historic site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 20 00 18 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 20.0053
decimal degrees
Long: 095 22 40 E
degrees minutes
Long: 95.3783
decimal degrees
Note:
Oldest urban site so far discovered in the area, dating to 200 BCE; Site of Hindu-Buddhist temples, built 11th to 13th cen. CE, primarily devoted to Theravada Buddhism.
Names:
Peikthano
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Beikthano
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Myanma
(nation) (
P
)
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Magway
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Peikthano
(historic site) (
P
)
Place Types:
historic site (
preferred
,
C
)
deserted settlement (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
religious center (
H
)
Hindu-Buddhist (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Beikthano..........
[
VP
]
....................
Google Maps online (2000-)
Peikthano..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
351
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
351
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Times Atlas of World History (1989)
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