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ID: 7001502
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001502
Record Type:
administrative
Ayodhya (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 47 59 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 26.7996
decimal degrees
Long: 082 12 15 E
degrees minutes
Long: 82.2041
decimal degrees
Note:
One of the seven Hindu holy places; Buddha is reputed to have lived here for a while; Kanauj kingdom in Oudh 11-12th centuries; Oudh was subordinate to British East India Company 1764; formed North-Western Provinces with Āgra Presidency 1877.
Names:
Ayodhya
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Ayodhyā
(
C
,
V
)
Ajodhya
(
C
,
V
)
Oudh
(
C
,
V
)
Awadh
(
C
,
V
)
Saketa
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
India
(nation) (
P
)
............
Uttar Pradesh
(state) (
P
)
................
Ayodhya
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient site; today forms a municipality with nearby Faizabad
town (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
annex (
H
)
............
by Great Britain, 1856
capital (
H
)
............
of Kosala kingdom, 550-320 BC
Sources and Contributors:
Ajodhya..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
18
Awadh..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 751
Ayodhya..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 751
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-11
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
626
Ayodhyā..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 751
Oudh..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 751
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Saketa..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 751
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 751
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2089412
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-11
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
18; 626
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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