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Shantiniketan is situated at 10] at an average elevation of 56 metres (187 feet).. The area is flanked on two sides by the rivers, the Ajay and the Kopai.Santiniketan earlier had an extensive forest cover, but substantial soil erosion gave certain areas a barren look, the resulting phenomenon is locally known as khoai.
Kala Bhavana was established in 1919. [1] [2] Although art historians have not been able to determine its exact date of foundation, it celebrated its centenary in 2019.[3] [4] Asit Kumar Haldar was an art teacher at Santiniketan Vidyalaya from 1911 to 1915 and was in charge of Kala Bhavana from 1919 to 1921.
Visva-Bharati (IAST: Viśva-Bhāratī), (Bengali: [biʃːɔbʱaroti]) is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it Visva-Bharati, which means the communion of the world with India. Until independence it was a college.
Founded in 1921 by him, Visva Bharati was declared to be a central university in 1951. [4] In 1913, Rabindranath won the Nobel Prize in Literature. [5] He wrote many of his literary classics at Santiniketan. [6]
Patha Bhavana is an institution of primary and secondary education in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.Founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1901, [1] starting with only five students, the school is characterized by its philosophy of learning with the heart in closeness to nature without any superficial barriers between teachers and students, as opposed to the strict, repetitive and ...
Reccopolis was founded in the year 578. The date is given in chronicle of John of Biclaro: With tyrants destroyed on all sides and the invaders of Spain overcome, King Leovigild had peace to reside with his own people. He founded a city in Celtiberia, which he named Recopolis after his son.
Spain lost all of its North and South American territories, except Cuba and Puerto Rico, in a complex series of revolts 1808–26. [128] Spain was at war with Britain 1798–1808, and the British blockade cut Spain's ties to the overseas empire. Trade was handled by American and Dutch traders.
Abd ar-Rahman I founded an independent dynasty that survived until the 11th century. [11] That line was succeeded by a variety of short and small emirates (taifas) unable to stop the push of the expanding northern Christian kingdoms. The Almoravids (1086–1094) and the Almohads (1146–1173) occupied al-Andalus, followed by the Marinids in ...