Anurādhapura
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
The ancient capital of Sri Lanka from the fourth century BCE to the 11th century CE. It was recorded under the name Anourogrammon by Ptolemy, who notes its primary political status (Basileion). It has sometimes been argued that a "Palaesimundum" mentioned by Pliny in retelling the story of a Sri Lankan embassy to the emperor Claudius is also to be identified with Anourogrammon.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/49863
8.313895, 80.414911
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 29968 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Anourogrammon (30 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Palaesimundum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Anurādhapura (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Anurādhapura connection Sri Lanka (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Anourogrammon/Palaesimundum?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Anurādhapura SRI
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, Divya Kumar-Dumas, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Anurādhapura: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/49863> [accessed: 01 February 2025]
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