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The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
Towns/Cities with populations of 1 lakh (100,000) are categorized as Class-I towns or Cities The 46 cities with populations of 1 million and above are known as Million Plus UA s or Cities The 3 UAs with populations of 10 million and above are known as Mega Cities (The census defines the three as Greater Mumbai UA (18.4 million), Delhi UA (16.3 ...
Since India gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1947, names of many cities, streets, places, and buildings throughout the Republic of India have been systematically changed, often to better approximate their native endonymic pronunciation. Certain traditional names that have not been changed, however, continue to be popular.
Old name New name Year of name change Ref. 1 Khanpur Shansi Gujranwala [unreliable source] 2 Nasrat Syed Nawab shah 1909 Nawabshah auto spelled 3 Sagala: Salwankot [unreliable source] Sialkot: 4 Nerunkot Hyderabad: 1768 [unreliable source] 5 Lyallpur Faisalabad: 1977 6 Sahiwal Montgomery 1965 [unreliable source] Sahiwal: 1966 7 Fort Sandeman Zhob
British Indian Empire in The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909. British India is shaded pink, the princely states yellow.. The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
This is a List of places visited by Ibn Battuta in the years 1325–1353. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta set out from his native town of Tangiers on a pilgrimage to Mecca in June 1325, when he was 21 years old. On completing his first hajj he continued travelling, only returning to Morocco twenty four years later in 1349.
John Gilchrist was the first in British India to begin a systematic study on Urdu and began to use the term "Hindustani" what the majority of Europeans called "Moors", authoring the book The Strangers's East Indian Guide to the Hindoostanee or Grand Popular Language of India (improperly Called Moors). [84]