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ID: 6000450
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000450
Record Type:
administrative
Asoka's Empire (former nation/state/empire)
Note:
Asoka, the last major emperor in the Mauryan dynasty, conquered the Kalinga country on the Bay of Bengal in 260 BCE. Later, Asoka abandoned his policy of conquest in favor of a policy of "Victory of Righteousness."
Names:
Asoka's Empire
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Ashoka's Empire
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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India
(nation) (
P
)
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Asoka's Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
Additional Parents:
World
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Mauryan Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
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Asoka's Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
empire (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ashoka's Empire..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 12 August 2004
Asoka's Empire..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 12 August 2004
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
337
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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