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ID: 6002201
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6002201
Record Type:
administrative
Gandhara (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 44 24 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.7400
decimal degrees
Long: 072 48 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 72.8000
decimal degrees
Note:
Historical region and ancient kingdom in northern India that included present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan; capital in Taxila, in Punjab.
Names:
Gandhara
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
Gandara
(
C
,
V
)
Gandharan
(
C
,
V
)
גנדהארה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Gandhara
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Afghanistan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gandhara
(former nation/state/empire)
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Pakistan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gandhara
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
kingdom (
H
)
inhabited place (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
גנדהארה..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Gandara..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Gandhara..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
.................
Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)
49
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Gandharan..........
[
VP
]
....................
Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
343
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)
..........
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
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