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- The Grand Trunk Road (formerly known as Uttarapath, Sarak-e-Azam, Shah Rah-e-Azam, Badshahi Sarak, and Long Walk) is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads. For at least 2,500 years it has linked Central Asia to the Indian subcontinent.
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The map reflects the current repudiation of the identification of Old Sarai with Selitrennoe gorodishche (which is New Sarai) and of New Sarai with Tsarevskoe gorodishche (which is probably Gulistan).
Jul 1, 2023 · Sarai - also known as Sarai Batu or Old Sarai - was an ancient city located in the region of the lower Volga River in what is now modern-day Russia. Just as the name suggests, the city was founded by Batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, in the mid-13th century.
A caravanserai (or caravansary; / k ær ə ˈ v æ n s ə ˌ r aɪ /) was a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey. Caravanserais supported the flow of commerce, information and people across the network of trade routes covering Asia, North Africa and Southeast Europe, most notably the Silk Road.
Jan 25, 2017 · When the 16th-century ruler Sher Shah Sur gets credit for building the GT Road, it merely means that he knitted all the existing roads along the route together. He also issued laws for the protection of the road and is said to have commissioned as many as 1,700 sarais along the major routes.
May 15, 2023 · All along the highways of medieval commerce in the Subcontinent, from the Eurasian Silk Road to the historic Grand Trunk Road, lay a series of rest-stops and inns where caravans of travellers, pilgrims and traders could break their journey. These were called caravanserais or simply sarai.
Jul 13, 2018 · When Ziauddin Barni, a 14th-century chronicler, laments the ruin of the city of Delhi due to the change of capital ordered by Tughlaq Sultan, Muhammad, the first thing that comes up in his list of...
A small detour from the main road between Naurangpur and Tauru road leads to a nondescript village called Sarai, which derives its name from a Mughal-era resthouse or sarai; its antiquity can...
