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Kuru Kingdom
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Key facts
- Capital
- Āsandīvat (modern Haryana ), Hastinapura (modern Meerut division , Saharanpur division and Aligarh division ) Indraprastha (modern Delhi and some part of National Capital Region (India) )
- Common languages
- Vedic Sanskrit
- Religion
- Historical Vedic religion
- Government
- Elective monarchy (1200 BCE - 700 BCE) , Confederation (700 BCE - 500 BCE), Gaṇasaṅgha (500 BCE - 345 BCE)
- C 12th 9th centuries bce
- Parikshit
- Legislature
- Sabhā
- Historical era
- Iron Age
- Established
- c. 1900 BCE
- Kuru kingdom was divided into kuru confe
- c. 700 BCE
- Kuru ga asa gha republic
- c. 500 BCE
- Disestablished
- c. 345 BCE
- Currency
- Karshapana
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofIndia
The Kuru Kingdom was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern India of the Bharata and Puru tribes. The Kuru kingdom appeared in the Middle Vedic period (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE) during the Iron age of India, encompassing parts of the modern-day states of Haryana, Delhi, and some North parts of Western Uttar Pradesh. The Kuru Kingdom was the first recorded state-level society in the Indian subcontinent.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kuru Kingdom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.