Sagala
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Sagala, Śākala (), or Sangala () was a city in Punjab, which is generally identified as the predecessor of the modern city of Sialkot that is located in what is now Pakistan's northern Punjab province. The city was the capital of the Madra kingdom and it was razed in 326 BC during the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great. In the 2nd century BC, Sagala was made capital of the Indo-Greek kingdom by Menander I. Menander embraced Buddhism after extensive debating with a Buddhist monk, as recorded in the Buddhist text Milinda Panha. Sagala became a major centre for Buddhism under his reign, and p
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Vinony's link graph records 72 inbound references to Sagala, and connects out to Punjab, Indo-Greek Kingdoms and Menander I.
The entry is geolocated on the map in PK, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Ancient history of Pakistan, Ancient Indian cities and Bactrian and Indian Hellenistic colonies.
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- Country
- Pakistan
- Capital of
- Taank Kingdom
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- replaced by
- Sialkot
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Sagala (em grego clássico: Σάγαλα; romaniz.: Ságala), Sangala (em grego clássico: Σάγγαλα; romaniz.: Sángala) ou Sacala (em sânscrito: साकला; romaniz.: Sakala) foi uma cidade da Índia Antiga, a predecessora da moderna Sialcote, que se situava no que é hoje a província paquistanesa no Punjabe. Anteriormente ela foi identificada com a moderna Laore.
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