Nagara (Ancient Greek: Νάγαρα), also known as Dionysopolis (Διονυσόπολις), was an ancient city in the northwest part of India intra Gangem ("India within...
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Look up nagara or Nagara in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nagara may refer to: Nagara (ancient city), an ancient city in Afghanistan Nagara, Karnataka...
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This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis. Many colonies...
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Vijayanagara (redirect from Vijaya nagara)
occupied up to the present. The name translates as "City of Victory", from vijaya (victory) and nagara (city). As the prosperous capital of the largest and...
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The Nagara River (長良川, Nagara-gawa) has its source in the city of Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, and its mouth in the city of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Along...
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he founded the city of Nysa, sometimes identified with Nagara. When Alexander the Great arrived in Nysa, representatives of the city met him and asked...
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Lalita Sahasranama (section The City of Sri Nagara)
At the behest of name 57, the divine city of Sri Nagara is described in all its splendor. The origins of the city can be traced to two different texts...
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Vijithapura (redirect from Vijitha Nagara)
romanized: Vijita Nakaram), also known as Vijitha Nagara or Vijithagama, was a fortress–city in ancient Sri Lanka. When Vijaya, the first recorded ruler...
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Polonnaruwa (redirect from Ancient City of Polonnaruwa)
Polonnaruwa. The name was perhaps a contraction of its ancient name Pulastya nagara or Pulatti nakaram meaning city of the Hindu sage Pulastya. It was renamed under...
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Hindu temple architecture (redirect from Nagara style)
Asia. Its great capital, Angkor (Khmer: អង្គរ, "Capital City", derived from Sanskrit "nagara"), contains some of the most important and the most magnificent...
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Carcosa is a fictional city in Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886). The ancient and mysterious city is barely described and...
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currently takes place in 13 cities in Japan. The most famous location is Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, home to cormorant fishing on the Nagara River, which has continued...
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considered as the beginning of the classical period of Indian architecture. Nagara and Dravidian architectural styles developed in the early medieval period...
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Murphy Town, Bangalore (redirect from Hoysala Nagara (Murphy Town))
been living in Bangalore than most other people in the city. The Street names in Hoysala Nagara are named after Mudaliars, who were prominent businessmen...
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era. Nagari is a vṛddhi derivation from नगर (nagara), which means city. The Nāgarī script appeared in ancient India as a central-eastern variant of the Gupta...
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bodies. Nagara Mahajana, Pattana shetty, Pattanaswamy, Pattanavergade, Gowda Pattana swamy were the patriarchs of larger Urban areas namely, Nagara, Nakara...
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Osaka (redirect from Osaka City)
Emperor Kōtoku built his Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in what is now Osaka, making it the capital of Japan. The city now known as Osaka was at this time...
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Aman Dev The temple is elegantly constructed in the classical style with a Nagara Shikhara and Samvarna mandapa. The site of the temple is very unusual. Unlike...
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Naqareh (redirect from Gosha nagara)
The naqareh, naqqāra, nagara or nagada is a Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a hide head, usually played in pairs. It is thus a membranophone...
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Yona (category Ancient Greece–Ancient India relations)
this statement is largely vague. Cham sources refer Dai Viet as nagara Yuen (Cham: nagara yvan, lit. "Viet state"), and the Viets as Yuen (yvan). Both terminologies...
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Architecture of India (section Nagara architecture)
architecture is divided into the Dravidian style of southern India and the Nagara style of northern India, with other regional styles. Housing styles also...
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Varanasi (category Ancient Indian cities)
Varanasi is one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities. Kashi, its ancient name, was associated with a kingdom of the same name of 2,500...
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measuring 162.6 hectares (1,626,000 m2; 402 acres) within the ancient Khmer capital city of Angkor, it is considered the largest religious structure in...
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Naga-khanda in the south of the Bharata-kshetra of Jambu dvipa : this is the Nagara-khanda Seventy of so many inscriptions, of which Bandanikke (Bandalike in...
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Valmiki (category Ancient Indian poets)
of Ancient India (a New Version) : From 7300 Bb To 4250 Bc. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. 2006. p. 720. ISBN 9788126906154. "The Skanda Purana, Nagara Khanda...
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Suktimati (category Ancient Indian cities)
Shuktimati, which flows through the region. It is referred to as Sotthivati-nagara in the Pali-language Buddhist texts. Shuktimati is described to have been...
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the temples of this period have nagara articulation, built in the stepped diamond and the square plan natural to a nagara superstructure. Notable among...
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Tumkur (redirect from Tumakuru City Corporation)
are also available for transportation within the city by KSRTC. Popularly known as Sri Siddaganga Nagara Sarige, named after the holy place, Siddaganga...
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Ayodhya (Ramayana) (redirect from Ayodhya (legendary city))
Ayodhya is a city mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit-language texts, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. These texts describe it as the capital...
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