was a
district
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located in
Wakayama Wakayama may refer to:
*Wakayama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan
*Wakayama (city)
Wakayama City Hall
is the capital city of Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 351,391 in 157066 househol ...
,
Japan
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.
There was only one town left within the district before the dissolution:
*
Iwade
Iwade is a village and civil parish north of the town of Sittingbourne in the English county of Kent.
History
Iwade was established in the late Medieval period, when it was a settlement linking Watling Street to the coast via Key Street (a st ...
History
*On November 11, 2005 - the towns of
Kishigawa,
Kokawa,
Momoyama,
Naga
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Mythology
* Nāga, a serpentine deity or race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions
* Naga Kingdom, in the epic ''Mahabharata''
* Phaya Naga, mythical creatures believed to live in the Laotian stretch of the Mekong Riv ...
and
Uchita were merged to create the city of
Kinokawa.
*On April 1, 2006 - the town of
Iwade
Iwade is a village and civil parish north of the town of Sittingbourne in the English county of Kent.
History
Iwade was established in the late Medieval period, when it was a settlement linking Watling Street to the coast via Key Street (a st ...
was elevated to city status. Therefore, Naga District was dissolved as a result of this merger.
Former districts of Wakayama Prefecture
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