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ID: 7002182
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002182
Record Type:
administrative
Ava (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 45 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 095 57 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 95.9500
decimal degrees
Note:
Ruined city on Irrawaddy River, founded in 14th cen. as capital of Burmese empire; capital for 400 years when replaced by Amarapura 1783; capital again 1823-1837.
Names:
Ava
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Myanma
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sagaing
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Ava
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1364 by the Shans, who succeeded the Pagan dynasty & who controlled the rice supply to the S
inhabited place (
H
)
national capital (
H
)
............
of Burma, 14th cen.-1783; again 1823-1837
Sources and Contributors:
Ava..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
99
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
99
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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