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ID: 1085637
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1085637
Record Type:
administrative
Phitsanulok (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 16 50 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 16.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 100 15 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 100.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Nan river; very old walled city, once rivaling Ayutthaya in size & importance; site of several temples, including the Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat which houses the famous early bronze figure, Phra Buddha Jinaraj.
Names:
Phitsanulok
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pitsanulok
(
C
,
V
)
Bisnulok
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Thailand
(nation) (
P
)
............
Phitsanulok
(province) (
P
)
................
Phitsanulok
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settlement dates at least to 13th cen.
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bisnulok..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 735
Phitsanulok..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 389
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Pitsanulok..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
950
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 735
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 389
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
950
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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