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ID: 8698233
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698233
Record Type:
administrative
Inwa (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 51 25 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.8577
decimal degrees
Long: 095 58 51 E
degrees minutes
Long: 95.9819
decimal degrees
Note:
Shan kingdom whose eponymous capital was at the confluence of the Irrawaddy and Mityinge rivers. Dominated Upper Myanmar in the 15th century and flourished in the arts and construction. Fell to a rival group of Shans in 1527.
Names:
Inwa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
Burmese (transliterated)
,
U
)
Ava
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Myanmar
(nation) (
P
)
............
Inwa
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
............
1364-1527
kingdom (
H
)
Related geographic places:
successor of ....
Pagan
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
......................
(World, Asia, Myanmar) [8698232]
Sources and Contributors:
Ava..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Inwa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
..................
Google Maps online (2000-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Aung-Thwin and Aung-Thwin, A History of Myanmar (2013)
107-127
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
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