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ID: 7005219
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005219
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chiang Mai (inhabited place)  Chiang Mai (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 48 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 18.8000  decimal degrees
Long: 098 59 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 98.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Located at foot of great mountain, Doi Inthanon, on upper course of Ping river near Burma border; was capital of Lanna Thai (Larna Na) kingdom from 13th cen.-1558, when Burmese gained control of the city; Siamese king Taksin drove the Burmese out in 1774.

Names:
Chiang Mai (preferred,C,V)
Chiengmai (C,V)
Kiangmai (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Thailand (nation)  ........  Thailand (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chiang Mai (province)  ............  Chiang Mai (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Chiang Mai (inhabited place)  ................  Chiang Mai (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1296 by king Meng Rai
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
trade center (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)
national capital (H)  ............  of united Lao kingdom

Sources and Contributors:
Chiang Mai..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 130
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 180
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 44
Chiengmai..........  [VP]
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 340
Kiangmai..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 251
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 130
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 180
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 44
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 340
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 251
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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