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ID: 1074816
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1074816
Record Type:
administrative
Bhubaneshwar (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 20 16 21 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 20.2724
decimal degrees
Long: 085 50 02 E
degrees minutes
Long: 85.8339
decimal degrees
Note:
Former center of Śaivite religion; has many temples (dating 7th to 16th cen.) which demonstrate all phases of Orissan architecture including the Mukteshwara, Lingaraja and Parashurāmeshwar. The town is on a highway between Madras and Calcutta.
Names:
Bhubaneshwar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Bhuvaneshvar
(
C
,
V
)
Bhubaneswar
(
C
,
V
)
Bhuvaneśvara
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
India
(nation) (
P
)
............
Orissa
(state) (
P
)
................
Bhubaneshwar
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settlement began 3rd cen. BC
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
moved from Cuttack 1948
provincial capital (
H
)
............
Hindu dynasties 5th-10th cen.
regional capital (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Udayagiri
.......... (sacred site)
..............................
(World, Asia, India, Orissa) [7578802]
Sources and Contributors:
Bhubaneshwar..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 31 January 2005
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Bhubaneswar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 101
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 189
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
27
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
538
Bhuvaneshvar..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
Bhuvaneśvara..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 189
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 101
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 189
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 31 January 2005
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2091695
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
27
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
538
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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