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  • Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas ...
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  • The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric migrations of the early Indo-Aryans to their historically attested areas ...
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  • Some scholars believe the Indo-Aryans moved into an already Dravidian ... * Erdosy, George. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language ...
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  • the Soma: The botanical evidence in The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia ... and archaeological evidence in The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia ...
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  • Sogdiana or Sogdia ( Суғд - Old Persian: Sughuda; سغد ; 粟特 - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province ...
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  • Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which is called by its adherents Mazdayasna (meaning "the worship of Mazda ...
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  • Indra is the most important deity in ancient Vedic Hinduism and the supreme deva (god) of the Rigveda scripture. Known as the god of storms and ...
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  • split may have occurred between the early Indo-Aryans and Iranians. (The cognate word in Avestan is daēva and in Zoroastrianism ahuras are supreme ...
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  • Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (later: von) Schlegel (March 10, 1772 - January 12, 1829) was a German poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German ...
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  • Dasa (Sanskrit for "servant") is a Hindu term with two primary usages: Originally, "Dasa" denoted enemies of the ancient ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Linguistics {{Infobox Writing system |name=Linear A |type=Undeciphered |typedesc=(likely Syllabic ...
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  • The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during which the Vedas, the oldest sacred ...
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  • Marlin is the common name for several, large marine billfish in the family Istiophoridae of the bony fish order Perciformes. As with the other ...
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  • The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), was an ancient civilization thriving along the lower Indus River and the Ghaggar River-Hakra River in what ...
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  • * Erdosy, George. 1995. The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. Indian philology and South Asian studies ...
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  • The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common Era, and a rich trade flourished between India and Greece, especially ...
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  • Hinduism is an umbrella term for various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced all around the world, though more ...
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  • known as Vedic Aryans, a subgroup of the Indo-Aryans) and their enemies, the ... hark back to clashes between the early Indo-Aryans with the BMAC in what ...
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  • The Vatsa (a branch of the early Indo-Aryans) were rulers of Hastinapur (near present day Delhi), and they established the town of Kaushambi ...
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  • The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled North-central and Eastern India as well as parts of the northwest (now ...
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  • Category:Linguists and lexicographers Category:Biography Jones, William (philologist) [[Image:Sir William Jones.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Sir William ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ritual strongly resemble those of the Vedic Indo-Aryans and the pre-Zoroastrian Iranians. Kalash mythology and folklore has been compared to that of ...
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  • The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika sa|स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right ...
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  • Zoroaster (Greek Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) or Zarathushtra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht ( زرتشت ...
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  • Literature in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, represents a continuous cultural tradition from the time of the Vedas in the second ...
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  • The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231 - 1273) consisted of a series of campaigns by the Mongol Empire against Korea, then known as Goryeo, from ...
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  • A ganachakra (Sanskrit: gaṇacakra, or 'gathering circle'; Tibetan: tshogs kyi 'khor lo), also known as tsog, ganapuja, chakrapuja ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[File:Human migrations and mitochondrial haplogroups.PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized ...
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  • Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located in north-western India in what is now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Found ...
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  • Gandharvas (from the Sanskrit: गंधर्व, gandharva, possibly meaning "fragrances") refers to a group of low-ranking male ...
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  • Ladakh ( t=ལ་དྭགས་|script=yes|w=la-dwags , Ladakhi lad̪ɑks , Hindi: लद्दाख़, Hindi ləd̪.d̪ɑːx , Urdu: لدّاخ; ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...
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  • Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertily, as well as ploughlands and gardens. She was considered ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 75 percent ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Buddha most commonly refers to Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit; Pali: Siddhāttha Gotama), also called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakyas,” ...
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  • "Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana" ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon of Olympian gods. He held jurisdiction over Mount Olympus, as well as ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Taxila is an important archaeological site in Pakistan containing the ruins of the Gandhāran city of Takshashila (also Takkasila or Taxila) ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) was the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. The Titans (Greek: ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Cronus (Ancient Greek: Κρόνος, Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation of Titans ...
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  • The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...
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  • The Dharmakāya (lit. Truth Body or Reality Body) is a central concept in Mahayana Buddhism forming part of the Trikaya doctrine that was first ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, marking the region where South Asia converges with Central ...
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  • George Erdosy, (ed.) The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity. (Walter de Gruyter, 1995. ISBN 978-3110144475 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty, was a geographically extensive and powerful political and military empire ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • including Aryan tribes (Iranian peoples, Indo-Aryans), Medes, Persians, Mauryas, Scythians, Kushans, Hephthalites, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and ...
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  • 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 ...
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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 ...
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  • Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after Hinduism, with approximately 151 million Muslims in India's population ...
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  • The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of ...
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  • Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971, following the resignation of ...
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  • Urdu ( ur|اردو , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European ...
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