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2 days ago · Punjab in its present form came into existence on November 1, 1966, when most of its predominantly Hindi-speaking areas were separated to form the new state of Haryana. The city of Chandigarh, within the Chandigarh union territory, is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana. The word Punjab is a compound of two Persian words, panj (“five ...
1 day ago · Hindustan ([ɦɪndʊˈstaːn] ⓘ) is a Middle Persian name for India that became popular by the 13th century, and was used widely since the era of the Mughal Empire. The meaning of Hindustan has varied, referring to a region encompassing present-day northern India and Pakistan or to India in its near entirety. History
1 day ago · Ibn Battuta is a patronymic literally meaning "son of the duckling". His most common full name is given as Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta. In his travelogue, the Rihla, he gives his full name as Shams al-Din Abu’Abdallah Muhammad ibn’Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf Lawati al-Tanji ibn Battuta.
1 day ago · The History of Bihar is one of the most varied in India. [1] Chirand, on the northern bank of the Ganga River, in Saran district, has an archaeological record dating from the Neolithic age (c. 2500 – 1345 BC). [2] [3] Regions of Bihar—such as Magadha, Mithila and Anga —are mentioned in religious texts and epics of ancient India.
2 days ago · t. e. Islam is India's second-largest religion, [6] with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. [1] India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world.
2 days ago · v. t. e. The Mamluk Sultanate ( Arabic: سلطنة المماليك, romanized : Salṭanat al-Mamālīk ), also known as Mamluk Egypt or the Mamluk Empire, was a state that ruled Egypt, the Levant and the Hejaz from the mid-13th to early 16th centuries. It was ruled by a military caste of mamluks (freed slave soldiers) headed by a sultan.
2 days ago · The 10th-century Charyapada are written in a language ancestral to Bengali, Assamese and Oriya. c. 1440: Vietnamese: Quốc âm thi tập: List of names in Chữ nôm date from the early 13th century. 1462: Albanian: Formula e pagëzimit, a baptismal formula in a letter of Archbishop Pal Engjëll
