Ganges (river in Sri Lanka)
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).
Last modified
May 09, 2023 11:34 AM
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History
This ancient name is probably to be associated with the modern Mahaweli, which is the longest river of Sri Lanka.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/49984
7.07429741452, 80.5735352391
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Mahaweli River (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Ganges (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Less than certain: Mahaweli River (English, modern)
- Ganges (river in Sri Lanka) flows into Orientale Mare/Gangeticus Sinus/Eous Oceanus (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Ganges? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mahaweli Ganga SRI
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ganges (river in Sri Lanka): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/49984> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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