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ID: 7002544
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002544
Record Type:
administrative
Polonnaruwa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 07 56 20 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 7.9397
decimal degrees
Long: 081 00 07 E
degrees minutes
Long: 81.0027
decimal degrees
Note:
Royal city during 11th-14th centuries; site of King Parakrama Bahu's palace and royal baths of Kumara Pokuna; once fortified by three concentric walls.
Names:
Polonnaruwa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Polonnaruva
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Shrī Laṁkā
(nation) (
P
)
............
North Central
(province) (
P
)
................
Polonnaruwa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
historic site (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
city (
C
)
World Heritage Site (
C
)
............
from 1982
capital (
H
)
............
of island, 11th-14th centuries
Sources and Contributors:
Polonnaruva..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2017
Polonnaruwa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2017
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
155
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 31 October 2017
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
155
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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