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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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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Geography Category:Archaeological sites {{Infobox World Heritage Site ...
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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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  • Nautilus (from Greek nautilos, "sailor") is the common name of any marine creatures of the cephalopod family Nautilidae, the sole family ...
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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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  • 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 ...
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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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  • Cro-Magnon Man is a name applied to the earliest known European examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, modern human beings. Cro-Magnons lived from ...
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