Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
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Name (Hebrew)
גאנדהארה (פקיסטן ואפגניסטן)
Name (Latin)
Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Other forms of name
nne Gandhara (Pakistan)
Coordinates
72.8291 72.8291 33.756 33.756 (gooearth )
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q213651
Library of congress:
sh 87001735
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Sen Gupta, N. Cultural history of Kapisanand Gandhara, 1984.
- Dey. Geographical dict. of ancient and mediaeval India, 1971.
- Lippincott.
- Web. geog.
- Random House.
- Britannica Micro.
- Mansingh, S. Historical dict. of India, c1996:p. 141 (Gandhara. An area in the Upper Indus valley on the northwestern area of the subcontinent, now lying within the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan)
- India 1990, c1990:p. 39 ("Gandhara art ... flourished for ten centuries between 3rd century BC and 7th century AD, in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Wset Punjab.")
- Acad. Amer. encyc.(Gandhara. Gandhara was a semiindependent kingdom that flourished from the 3d century BC to the 5th century AD in what is now northern Pakistan. It extended from present-day Rawalpindi through the Peshawar Valley to Kabul.)
- Web. geog.(Gandhara. Region, NW Pakistan and part of E Afghanistan--loosely so called from about 6th cent. B.C. to 5th cent. A.D.)