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ID: 7002534
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002534
Record Type:
administrative
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 06 54 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 6.9000
decimal degrees
Long: 079 54 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 79.9000
decimal degrees
Names:
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kotte
(
C
,
V
)
Sri-Jayawardenapura
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Shrī Laṁkā
(nation) (
P
)
............
Western
(province) (
P
)
................
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an ancient center
town (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
as Kotte, of former Sinhalese kingdom, 14th-15th cen.; established as modern capital in 1983
administrative center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Shrī Laṁkā
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, Asia) [1000110]
Sources and Contributors:
Kotte..........
[
VP
]
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
627
Sri-Jayawardenapura..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
612
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte..........
[
VP Preferred
]
............................................
Britannica Book of the Year (1991)
703
............................................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
718
............................................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
341, 612
............................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
............................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
627
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1991)
703
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1993)
718
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
341, 612; 612
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
627
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