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- Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources, was one of the Indo-Greek rulers in northern India from c. 155 B.C.E. to ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- hymns of the Rig Veda (the holy book of the Indo-Aryans) meant any supernatural spirit—good or bad. Hence, even some of the devas (demigods), especially ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- ritual strongly resemble those of the Vedic Indo-Aryans and the pre-Zoroastrian Iranians. Kalash mythology and folklore has been compared to that of ...33 KB (5,027 words) - 17:07, 14 May 2024
- The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa|स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- Zoroaster (Greek Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) or Zarathushtra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht ( زرتشت ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents a continuous cultural tradition from the time of the Vedas in the second ...19 KB (2,849 words) - 03:17, 23 December 2022
- The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231 - 1273) consisted of a series of campaigns by the Mongol Empire against Korea, then known as Goryeo, from ...9 KB (1,252 words) - 19:58, 9 November 2022
- A ganachakra (Sanskrit: gaṇacakra, or 'gathering circle'; Tibetan: tshogs kyi 'khor lo), also known as tsog, ganapuja, chakrapuja ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:Human migrations and mitochondrial haplogroups.PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located in north-western India in what is now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Found ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male ...9 KB (1,445 words) - 07:26, 2 April 2008
- Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...43 KB (6,368 words) - 05:33, 4 March 2023
- Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan GCMG, MBE, Hilal-i-Jurat, NPk, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was a Field Marshal during the mid-1960s, and ...18 KB (2,831 words) - 14:50, 7 February 2023
- Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertily, as well as ploughlands and gardens. She was considered ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the very first king of the gods. He was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 75 percent ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- Goose (plural geese) is the common name for any member of a variety of species of wild or domesticated large waterbirds in the family Anatidae ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana" ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon of Olympian gods. He held jurisdiction over Mount Olympus, as well as ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- The Three Jewels (also called the Three Treasures or Triple Gem) are three religious vows that are made in the process of becoming a Buddhist ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. The Titans (Greek: ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- In Greek mythology, Cronus (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation of Titans ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, marking the region where South Asia converges with Central ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- George Erdosy, (ed.) The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. (Walter de Gruyter, 1995. ISBN 978-3110144475 ...50 KB (7,467 words) - 05:25, 5 November 2022
- as one of the prominent mahajanapadas of the Indo-Aryans. In the post-Mahabharata period (around 500 B.C.E.) Avanti became an important kingdom in western ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty, was a geographically extensive and powerful political and military empire ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Geography Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Heimdall is the sentry of Asgard and a member of the Aesir (the gods of the Norse pantheon). His most important function within Norse mythology ...18 KB (2,781 words) - 22:43, 3 February 2022
- The Statue of Zeus at Olympia is one of the classical Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was carved by the famed sculptor Phidias around ...7 KB (1,101 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- The Qutb complex refers to an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the Qutub Minar standing out as the most famous. ...14 KB (2,079 words) - 16:04, 7 December 2022
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- In Norse mythology, Njord or Njordr (Old Norse Njörðr) is one of the Vanir (the gods of prosperity and fertility), and is seen as the god of ...22 KB (3,533 words) - 02:30, 16 November 2022
- including Aryan tribes (Iranian peoples, Indo-Aryans), Medes, Persians, Mauryas, Scythians, Kushans, Hephthalites, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- Since the creation of the separate states of India and Pakistan in 1947, the two neighboring nations have engaged in four wars. The first conflict ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
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- Zanskar is a subdistrict or tahsil of the Kargil district, which lies in the eastern half of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Situated ...14 KB (2,083 words) - 21:53, 2 December 2022
- Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after Hinduism, with approximately 151 million Muslims in India's population ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family ...16 KB (2,282 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- In geometry and trigonometry, an angle (or plane angle) is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint. The endpoint is called the ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Urdu ( ur|اردو , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern human beings. Cro-Magnons lived from ...8 KB (1,081 words) - 00:21, 15 January 2023
- Starfish, or sea stars (a less confusing designation, since they are only very distantly related to fish), are marine invertebrates belonging ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 04:39, 28 April 2023
- The Etruscan civilization is the name given today to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy whom ancient Romans called Etrusci ...35 KB (5,526 words) - 04:38, 22 March 2024
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. This mode of belief is ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Aphrodite (Greek: Ἀφροδίτη) is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. She is primarily associated with selfish sexual ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- The Vedas (Devanagari sa|वेद ) are a large corpus of texts originating in ancient India. They are the oldest scriptural texts of Hinduism ...32 KB (4,855 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto language: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, or Persian ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- Friedrich Max Müller (December 6, 1823 – October 28, 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist, mythographer, and ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- In Norse Mythology, Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) was a widely worshipped deity among the Viking peoples and revered as the "God of Thunder. ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
- ( sa|देवनागरी , ˈdeɪvəˌnɑgəri ) is an abugida script used to write several Indian languages, including Sanskrit, Hindi, ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- Hinduism, known as Sanātana Dharma, (सनातन धर्म) and Vaidika-Dharma by most Hindus, is a worldwide religious tradition rooted ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- Tongariro National Park, established in 1887, was the first national park in New Zealand, and the fourth in the world. Located in the central ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 03:58, 1 May 2023
- The Holy Grail is a mythical object or symbol associated with Jesus Christ. In earliest Grail literature, it was described as the dish, plate ...17 KB (2,819 words) - 16:11, 25 January 2023
- In Norse Mythology, Freyja (sometimes anglicized as Freya or Freja), sister of Freyr and daughter of Njord (Njǫrđr), is a prototypical Norse ...27 KB (4,334 words) - 12:25, 13 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Archaeology [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- Australasia is a term used to describe a region within Oceania. The physical countries, islands or regions that comprise Australasia vary greatly ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, and peoples by Western scholars. It can also refer to the ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Russian ([[:Media:Ru-russkiy jizyk.ogg| ru|русский язык ]] (help), transliteration: ru|ALA|russkiy yazyk) is the most geographically ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was also worshiped in ancient Egypt. In Ugaritic her name appears as ‘nt and ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Wilhelm Schmidt (February 16, 1868 – February 10, 1954) was a German Roman Catholic priest, and a famous linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist ...10 KB (1,397 words) - 12:00, 5 May 2023
- Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He is most identifiable as a tall, white-bearded figure carrying a trident ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, as well as an economic and cultural center ...23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
- Dugong is the common name for a large, herbivorous, fully aquatic marine mammal, Dugong dugon, characterized by gray-colored, nearly hairless ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- Nemertea is a phylum of largely aquatic invertebrate animals also known as ribbon worms or proboscis worms and characterized by long, thin, unsegmented ...11 KB (1,500 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: [miˈʃɛl fuˈko] ) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher, historian and sociologist ...48 KB (6,765 words) - 17:10, 9 November 2022
- Flounder is a common name for various marine fish in the Order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish), and in particular those comprising the families ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Bachofen, Johann Jakob [[Image:Johann Jacob Bachofen.jpg|thumb|Johann Jacob Bachofen]] ...10 KB (1,351 words) - 14:47, 1 August 2022
- The Himalayas (also Himalaya, IPA: [hɪ'mɑlijə], [ˌhɪmə'leɪjə] ) are a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent ...37 KB (5,509 words) - 23:27, 18 December 2020
- The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian (aeolian, or wind-related) processes. Dunes can take different forms and sizes ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- Telugu (తెలుగు; ['t̪elʊgʊ] ), a Dravidian language (South-Central Dravidian languages), is the official language of the Indian ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- An entheogen, in the strictest sense, is a psychoactive substance used in a religious or shamanic context. Historically, entheogens are derived ...32 KB (4,699 words) - 18:57, 13 February 2024
- Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from the teachings of the Persian prophet Zarathushtra (c. tenth century B.C.E ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- Sanskrit ( sa|संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk , for short sa|संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam ) is an ancient ...71 KB (10,080 words) - 03:16, 23 December 2022
- Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana (Bangla: অতীশ দীপঙ্কর শ্রীজ্ঞান) (982 - 1052 C.E.), a Buddhist teacher from ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- The Kathmandu Valley ( नेपाः स्वनिगः Nepāḥ Svānigaḥ ), located in Nepal, lies at the crossroads of ancient civilizations ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 20:17, 28 February 2023
- Druid denotes the priestly class in ancient Celtic societies, which existed through much of Western Europe north of the Alps and in Britain until ...19 KB (2,969 words) - 09:43, 15 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Roma |image=[[Image:Spiezer Schilling ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny Микола Вікторович Підгорний, Mykola Viktorovych PidhornyyНикола́й Ви́кторович ...24 KB (3,354 words) - 16:40, 29 April 2023
- The Bangladesh War of Independence or the Bangladesh Liberation War refers to an armed conflict between West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- In Indian philosophy and religion, Samadhi (Sanskrit: समाधि, lit. "establish, make firm") is a term used in a variety of ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 02:04, 23 December 2022
- Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 - January 9, 1927) was a British-born author of books on political philosophy, natural science ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 01:22, 4 February 2023
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common Era following the reign of Augustus and his conquest of Egypt. Ian Shaw. The ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian legends and religious beliefs of the Scandinavian people and Northern Germanic tribes ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the wife and older sister of Zeus. She was also called upon as the goddess of ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- Nathu La (Nepali: नाथू ला, IAST: Nāthū Lā) a mountain pass in the Himalayas located on the Indo–China border connecting the ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- Mehrgarh (Urdu: مﮩرگڑھ , also spelled as Mehrgahr, Merhgarh, or Merhgahr) is one of the most important Neolithic (7000 B.C.E. to ...11 KB (1,633 words) - 04:13, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropologists Category:Physical sciences Category:Biographies of Scientists and Mathematicians ...22 KB (3,415 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- Bragi is the god of poetry in Norse mythology. Given the prominent role that poetry played in Nordic society (as it was the primary means of ...11 KB (1,734 words) - 14:56, 28 April 2020
- Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following Hinduism and Islam. Abrahamic religions on the whole date back about 2500 ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
