Nachchaduwa Tank
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 13, 2025 03:13 PM
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History
A major modern reservoir in Sri Lanka, located southeast of Anuradhapura. Its original construction is traditionally dated to the late third or early fourth century CE. BAtlas 5 inset labels its geometry as "Megisba Stagnum", a toponym for a swamp or wetland reported by Pliny during the first century CE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/371645386
8.24798324108, 80.4885237706
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Nachchaduwa Tank (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Nachchaduwa Reservoir (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Nachchaduwa Tank (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Nachchaduwa Wewa (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- නාච්චාදූව වැව (Nachchaduwa wewa: Sinhala, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- ਨਾਚਾਦੁਵਾ ਝੀਲ (Nācāduvā jhīla: Punjabi, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Less than certain: Nachchaduwa Tank succeeds Megisba Stagnum (unspecified date range)
- Nachchaduwa Tank located on Sri Lanka (unspecified date range)
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None
reservoir, hafir
- See Further:
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- Brohier 1937 pages 71-72
- Chithrananda 2023 page 225
- Fernando 1980 page 17 and page ii of preceding "Table of Major Irrigation Works Constructed Before the 13th Century A.D."
- Gunawardena 2016
- Jayawardana 2015 pages 31-33 and page 57 note 70
- Shaw 2003 page 97
- Sutcliffe 2011 pages 786-787
- Wickramasekara 2022
- Wikipedia (English) Nachchaduwa wewa
- Related:
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'Nachchaduwa Tank: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/371645386> [accessed: 18 November 2025]
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