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The Avantiswami Temple is an ancient ruined Hindu temple located on the banks of the Jhelum River, 28 km away from Srinagar in Awantipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India.Its ruins once consisted of two temples dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu, [1] and were built under king Avantivarman of the Utpala dynasty in the 9th century CE.
Chakrabarti D.K. 1988 A history of Indian archeology from the beginning to 1947; Chakrabarti D.K. 2006. The Oxford companion to Indian archaeology : the archaeological foundations of ancient India, Stone Age to AD 13th century; Braj Basi Lal (2011). Piecing Together - Memoirs of an Archaeologist. Aryan Books International. ISBN 978-81-7305-417-4.
India accepted the convention on 14 November 1977, making its sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [3] There are 43 World Heritage Sites in India. Out of these, 35 are cultural, seven are natural, and one, Khangchendzonga National Park, is of mixed type, listed for both cultural and natural properties. India has the sixth-most sites worldwide.
The Fort's history has been traced from 1330 AD onwards, under the rule of Muhammad bin Tughluq of Delhi.But its ancient history, as a town, mostly ruled by Hindu kings, is initially traced from a stone inscription to Chandra Gupta Maurya (4th century BC), (after whom it was initially called Gupta Garhis) and later dated to the kingdom of Anga, the capital of which was at Champa near Bhagalpur ...
Map marking the extent of ancient Nagarahara according to the work of William Simpson [1]. Nagara (Ancient Greek: Νάγαρα), also known as Dionysopolis (Διονυσόπολις), was an ancient city in the northwest part of India intra Gangem [a] ("India within the Ganges"), distinguished in Ptolemy by the title ἡ καὶ Διονυσόπολις 'also Dionysopolis'. [2]
The Sutyagin House is often considered one of the tallest wooden houses in the world. Entrepreneur Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin started building the large wooden home in 1992, and it reached 144 ...
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