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Gandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)

LC control no.sh 87001735
Geographic headingGandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
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Geographic subdivision usageGandhara (Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Variant(s)Gandhara (Pakistan)
Found inWork cat.: Sen Gupta, N. Cultural history of Kapisanand Gandhara, 1984.
Dey. Geographical dict. of ancient and mediaeval India, 1971.
Lippincott.
Web. geog.
Random House.
Britannica Micro.
Mansingh, S. Historical dict. of India, c1996: p. 141 (Gandhara. An area in the Upper Indus valley on the northwestern area of the subcontinent, now lying within the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan)
India 1990, c1990: p. 39 ("Gandhara art ... flourished for ten centuries between 3rd century BC and 7th century AD, in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Wset Punjab.")
Acad. Amer. encyc. (Gandhara. Gandhara was a semiindependent kingdom that flourished from the 3d century BC to the 5th century AD in what is now northern Pakistan. It extended from present-day Rawalpindi through the Peshawar Valley to Kabul.)
Web. geog. (Gandhara. Region, NW Pakistan and part of E Afghanistan--loosely so called from about 6th cent. B.C. to 5th cent. A.D.)