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Srivijaya's City Planning: Palembang and the Riverine Capital
Episode 141 of Fexingo History's Srivijaya series explores the urban design of the empire's capital, Palembang, and the network of riverine settlements that sustained it. Drawing from Chinese records like Zhao Rugua's Zhufan Zhi and archaeological evidence from the Musi River basin, Lucas and Luna examine how the city's layout—its wooden stilt-houses, canals, and floating markets—reflected a maritime-oriented society. They discuss the central role of the Musi and its tributaries as highways, the division between the royal quarter at Bukit Seguntang and the commercial…
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