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Polonnaruwa

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Jan 20, 2013 07:08 PM — History

tags: UWHS

An ancient city of the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa dating ca. AD 1070. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/348371058

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
7.932882, 81.008119

Locations:

location of Polonnaruwa (AD 640 - AD 1453)

Names:

None

Polonnaruwa makes connections with:

Polonnaruwa connection Taprobane/Palaisimoundou/Salike (island) (unspecified date range)

Polonnaruwa receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Polonnaruwa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/348371058> [accessed: 04 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/348371058 |title=Places: 348371058 (Polonnaruwa) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=August 4, 2020 1:10 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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