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ID: 7005230
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005230
Record Type:
administrative
Nakhon Si Thammarat (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 24 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.4000
decimal degrees
Long: 099 58 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 99.9667
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport located on E coast of Malay Peninsula; a very old town, noted as the initial source of Thai niello work in silver; was once the capital of a powerful state that controlled the middle portion of the peninsula.
Names:
Nakhon Si Thammarat
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Nagara Sridharmaraj
(
C
,
V
)
Ligor
(
H
,
V
)
............
name used until 20th cen.
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Thailand
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nakhon Si Thammarat
(province) (
P
)
................
Nakhon Si Thammarat
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded more than 1,000 years ago
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
early Hindu/Buddhist remains
national capital (
H
)
............
of powerful medieval state
Sources and Contributors:
Ligor..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 491
Nagara Sridharmaraj..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
808
Nakhon Si Thammarat..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 491
...................................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
135
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 491
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
135
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
808
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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