The history of Sindh (Sindhi: سنڌ جي تاريخ, Urdu: سندھ کی تاریخ) refers to the history of the modern-day Pakistani province of Sindh, as well as neighboring regions that periodically came under its sway.Sindh has longer history of dynastic rule than any other province of Pakistan due to its relatively isolated location, as compared to Punjab and Balochistan.

Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South (Southern) Asia. Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the Ancient Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great of Macedon, the Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Timurid Empire of Timur, the Mughal Empire, various …

Constitutional monarchies. A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchical government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges an elected or hereditary monarch as head of state.. Unitary constitutional monarchies. Unitary constitutional monarchies are unitary states which are governed constitutionally as one single unit, with a single constitutionally …

Ancient history. Peshawar alongside the modern day Ghandara region were found in the Vedic Scripture as Pushkalavati. Foundation. Peshawar was founded as the city of Puruṣapura, on the Gandhara Plains in the broad Valley of Peshawar in 100 CE. It may have been named after a Hindu raja who ruled the city who was known as Purush. The city likely first existed as a small village …

The Satavahanas (Sādavāhana or Sātavāhana, IAST: Sātavāhana), also referred to as the Andhras in the Puranas, were an ancient Indian dynasty based in the Deccan region. Most modern scholars believe that the Satavahana rule began in the late second century BCE and lasted until the early third century CE, although some assign the beginning of their rule to as early as the 3rd century …

Taxila or Takshashila (Punjabi and Urdu: ٹيکسلا; Sanskrit: Takṣaśilā; Pali: Takkasilā; Prakrit: ????????????????????????, Takkhasilā; Ancient Greek: Τάξιλα Táxila),, is a city in Punjab, Pakistan.Located in the Taxila Tehsil of Rawalpindi District, it lies approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area and is just south of ...

The English word "dinar" is the transliteration of the Arabic دينار (dīnār), which was borrowed via the Syriac dīnarā, itself from the Latin dēnārius.. The Kushan Empire introduced a gold coin known as the dīnāra into India in the 1st century AD; the Gupta Empire and its successors up to the 6th century adopted the coin. The modern gold dinar is a projected bullion gold coin, as ...

Kushan Empire (c. 30 CE - c. 375 CE) Main article: Kushan art Officially established by Kujula Kadphises , the first Kushan emperor who united the Yuezhi tribes, the Kushan empire was a syncretic empire in central and southern Asia, including the …

Kushan power also consolidated long distance trade, linking Central Asia to both Han Dynasty China and the Roman Empire in Europe. Sassanid (3rd-5th centuries) The Kushans ruled the area as part of their larger empire until the 3rd century AD, when the Zoroastrian Persian Sassanid Empire invaded Kushan territory from the southwest. Fergana ...

The Emirate of Bukhara (Persian: امارت بخارا, romanized: Amārat-e Bokhārā, Chagatay: بخارا امرلیگی, romanized: Bukhārā Amirligi) was a Muslim polity in Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is now modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana.

The official design of the national flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly together with a definition of the features and proportions. According to the specifications, it is a dark green rectangular flag in the proportion of length [A] and width [B] as 3:2 with a white vertical bar at the mast, the green portion bearing a white crescent in the centre and a five-pointed white heraldic …

The Kushan empire began as a Central Asian kingdom, and expanded into Afghanistan and northwestern India in the early centuries CE. The Kushan period is considered the Golden Period of Gandhara. Peshawar Valley and Taxila are littered with ruins of stupas and monasteries of this period. Gandharan art flourished and produced some of the best ...

Name. There is a strong possibility that the name Kunshan is derived from a hill, but which one is controversial. According to an impacted version, [clarification needed] the hill is present-day Little Kunshan (Xiaokunshan) in Shanghai's Songjiang District.The character 崑 (Kun) was the old Chinese [dubious – discuss] name for the Kunlun Mountains.From it developed the Chinese …

The disunited Kushan and Sasanian kingdoms were in a poor position to meet the threat several waves of Xionite/Huna invaders from the north from the 4th century onwards. In particular, the Hephthalites (or Ebodalo ; Bactrian script ηβοδαλο) swept out of Central Asia during the 5th century into Bactria and Iran, overwhelming the last of ...