Basawakkulama 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 08, 2025 10:07 AM
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History
A reservoir at Anurādhapura in north-central Sri Lanka, originally built in the 4th century BCE and still in use today.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746407955
8.35063578749, 80.3877620245
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Basawakkulama (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- අභය වැව (Abhaya Wewa: Sinhala, unspecified date range)
- අභයවාපි (Abhayavāpi: Sinhala, unspecified date range)
- அபயவாவி (Apayavāvi: Tamil, unspecified date range)
- බසවක්කුලම වැව (Basavakkulama Væva: Sinhala, unspecified date range)
- Basawakkulama Tank located at Anurādhapura (unspecified date range)
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reservoir, hafir
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'Basawakkulama Tank: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746407955> [accessed: 19 July 2026]
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