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ID: 8698232
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698232

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pagan (former nation/state/empire)  Pagan (former nation/state/empire)

Coordinates:
Lat: 21 21 50 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 21.3649  decimal degrees
Long: 095 28 12 E  degrees minutes   Long: 95.4706  decimal degrees

Note: Kingdom centered in the Irrawaddy valley; capital also named Pagan. Emerged from the kingdom of Nanzhao in southwestern China to become a center for Burmese language and culture. Became the first to unify the regions that would later make up modern-day Myanmar.

Names:
Pagan (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Myanma (nation)  ........  Myanma (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Pagan (former nation/state/empire)  ............  Pagan (former nation/state/empire) (P)

Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (preferred, C)  ............  849-ca. 1300
kingdom (H)

Related geographic places:
predecessor of ....  Inwa .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..........................  (World, Asia, Myanma) [8698233]
related to ....  Pagan .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Asia, Myanma, Mandalay Division) [8698002]

Sources and Contributors:
Pagan..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-) accessed 31 October 2016
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-) accessed 31 October 2016
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 31 October 2016
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-) accessed 31 October 2016

 

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