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Angkor Wat

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Jun 18, 2020 09:54 PM — History

tags: extant remains, UWHS

The principal temple of Angkor, the capital city of the Khmer empire, Angkor Wat was constructed in the 12th century CE. Angkor was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/835369289

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
13.4124871995, 103.866682844

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Angkor Wat central structure (AD 1100 - Present)
- OSM Location of Angkor Wat Perimeter (AD 1100 - Present)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Angkor Wat (English, modern)
- អង្គរវត្ត (Angkor Wat: Khmer, modern)

Angkor Wat makes connections with:

Angkor Wat located at Angkor (unspecified date range)

Angkor Wat receives connections from:

None

Place type:
space (uncovered), temple

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The Angkor Wat complex covers an area of approximately 162.6 hectares (1,626,000 m²; 402 acres). Its original purpose was to serve as a temple of the Hindu god Vishnu but it was transformed into a Buddhist temple by the late twelfth century.

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Angkor Wat: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/835369289> [accessed: 04 October 2022]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/835369289 |title=Places: 835369289 (Angkor Wat) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=October 4, 2022 12:27 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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