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ID: 7002193
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002193
Record Type:
administrative
Prome (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 095 14 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 95.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of capital of Pyu state; vanquished by Burmese 9th cen. CE; site of early Sanskrit inscriptions & Hindu-Buddhist remains dating from 6th-8th cen.; site of Hindu-Buddhist temples from 13th-14th cen.; was occupied by Japanese in WW II.
Names:
Prome
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pyay
(
C
,
V
)
Pyè
(
C
,
V
)
Sri Ksetra
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Myanmar
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bago
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Prome
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
historic site (
C
)
religious center (
H
)
Hindu-Buddhist (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Prome..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
522
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
158
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
983
Pyay..........
[
VP
]
...........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Pyè..........
[
VP
]
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
159
Sri Ksetra..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
355
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
522
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
158; 159
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
355
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
983
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
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