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ID: 1066243
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1066243
Record Type:
administrative
Pegu (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 18 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.3000
decimal degrees
Long: 096 31 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 96.5167
decimal degrees
Note:
City destroyed by King Alaungpaya ca. 1740; annexed by British 1852; occupied by Japanese WW II; site of numerous pagodas, including noted Shwemawdaw, & Shwethalyaung, a reclining figure of Buddha.
Names:
Pegu
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Myanma
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bago
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Pegu
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded ca. 825 AD
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
of Mon kingdom ca. 825-14th cen.; of Toungoo dynasty of Pegu kingdom, 14th-16th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Pegu..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
499
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
151
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
935
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
499
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
151
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
935
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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