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ID: 7002516
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002516
Record Type:
administrative
Matara (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 080 32 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 80.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Dutch & Portuguese forts were established on the site; was a center for colonial cinnamon trade; today is noted for white zircons, known locally as "Matara diamonds."
Names:
Matara
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Shrī Laṁkā
(nation) (
P
)
............
Southern
(province) (
P
)
................
Matara
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a colonial center
town (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Matara..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
399
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
124
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
740
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
399
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
124
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
740
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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