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was a

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located in Sōraku District, Kyoto Prefecture,

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. As of February 1, 2007, the town had an estimated

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of 15,907 and a

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of 430.27 persons per km². The total area was 36.97 km². On March 12, 2007, Kamo, along with the towns of Kizu and Yamashiro (all from Sōraku District), was merged to create the city of

Kizugawa is a city located in southern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is the southernmost city in the prefecture and it is named after the Kizu River, a tributary of the Yodo River, which runs through the city. Kizugawa City is a part of the Kansai Science ...

. Between the years of 740 to 744, Kamo had been the

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named

Kuni-kyō Kuni-kyō (恭仁京, or ''Kuni no miyako''), was the capital city of Japan between 740 and 744, whose imperial palace (恭仁宮 ''Kuni-kyū'' or ''Kuni no miya'') was built in the present-day city of Kizugawa in Kyoto Prefecture by the order of ...

External links

Kamo official website
in Japanese
Kamo Planetarium
Dissolved municipalities of Kyoto Prefecture {{Kyoto-geo-stub