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ID: 7002527
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002527
Record Type:
administrative
Jaffna (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 09 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 9.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 080 01 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 80.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Financial & cultural center of Tamil-Hindu dominated north; site of Tamil insurgency 1985-1988 & intervention by Indian army; site of Hindu shrines & temples, old Dutch fort; last Portuguese possession in Sri Lanka; became British 1795.
Names:
Jaffna
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Shrī Laṁkā
(nation) (
P
)
............
Northern
(province) (
P
)
................
Jaffna
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled before 204 AD when taken by Tamils
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
related to ....
Jaffna
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................
(World, Asia, Shrī Laṁkā, Northern) [8698220]
Sources and Contributors:
Jaffna..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
303
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
91
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
563, 862
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
303
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
91
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
563, 862
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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