Historical places out of India having Indian Origin

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This tread is started with a view to compile Historical places out of India having Indian Origin. We narrate some such places in posts below. You may add more.

Amarendrapura (अमरेन्द्रपुर) was one of ancient cities of Cambodia.

विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[SUP][28][/SUP] ने लेख किया है ...अमरेन्द्रपुर (AS, p.32) प्राचीन कंबुज का एक ऐतिहासिक नगर था। अमरेन्द्रपुर नगर वर्तमान अंकोरवाट के उत्तर-पश्चिम में 100 मील की दूरी पर स्थित था। यहाँ पर 9वीं शती ई. के राजा जयवर्मन द्वितीय की राजधानी कुछ कालपर्यन्त रही थी।

Read more at https://www.jatland.com/home/Cambodia

 

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Banat Of Temeswar in Europe;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banat_of_Temeswar

Banat is a village near Shamli in UP also and inhibited by Kalkhande Jats

 

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Tomar city in Portugal;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomar

In my view Tomar name here and Jat Tomar gotra is not a mere coincidence.

 

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Angkor (अंगकोर) was the capital city of the Khmer Empire, which also recognized as Yasodharapura (यशोधरपुर) and flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries.

The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara (नगर), meaning "city".

अंकोरवाट


Angkor Wat Temple Complex, Cambodia


विजयेन्द्र कुमार माथुर[SUP][1][/SUP] ने लेख किया है ...अंकोरवाट (AS, p.3) कम्बोडिया, जिसे पुराने लेखों में कम्बुज भी कहा गया है। यहाँ भारत के प्राचीन और शानदार स्मारक हैं। यहाँ संसार-प्रसिद्ध विशाल विष्णुमंदिर है। अंकोरवाट मन्दिर अंकोरथोम नामक नगर में स्थित है, जिसे प्राचीन काल में यशोधरपुर कहा जाता था। अंकोरवाट जयवर्मा द्वितीय के शासनकाल (1181-1205 ई.) में कम्बोडिया की राजधानी था। यह अपने समय में संसार के महान् नगरों में गिना जाता था और इसका विशाल भव्य मन्दिर अंकोरवाट के नाम से आज भी विख्यात है। अंकोरवाट का निर्माण कम्बुज के राजा सूर्यवर्मा द्वितीय (1049-66 ई.) ने कराया था और यह मन्दिर विष्णु को समर्पित है।

Ref 1. Aitihasik Sthanavali by Vijayendra Kumar Mathur, p.3

Read more at https://www.jatland.com/home/Angkor

 

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Abhayagiri Vihāra (अभयगिरि विहार) was a major monastery site of Buddhism at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Abhayagiri Vihara was erected in B.C. 89.

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Ambatirtha (अंबतीर्थ) is an ancient place in Sri Lanka.

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Ambatthakol (अंबट्ठकोल) is an ancient place in Sri Lanka.

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Aninditapura (अनिन्दितपुर) was an ancient city in Cambodia in 8th century founded by Indian Rulers. It finds mention in ancient records of Cambodia that Pushkaraksha, King of Aninditpura had usurped the neighboring state Shambhupura.

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Antakhi (अंताखी) was the Sanskrit equivalent of place called Antioch in ancient Syria. Its ruins lie near the modern city of Antakya, Hatay Province in southern Turkey.

अंताखी (AS, p.4) सिरिया या शाम देश में स्थित ऐंटिओकस नामक स्थान का प्राचीन संस्कृत रूप जिसका उल्लेख महाभारत में है-'अंताखी चैव रोमां च यवनानां पुरं तथा, द्तैरेव वशंचक्रे करं चैनानदापयत्' सभा0 31,72; अर्थात् सहदेव ने अपनी दिग्विजय-यात्रा में अंताखी, रोम और यवनपुर के शासकों को केवल दूत भेज कर ही वश में कर लिया और उन पर कर लगाया। (टि. इस श्लोक का पाठांतर- 'अटवीं च पुरीं रम्यां यवनानां पुरंतथा' है)

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Anuradhapura (अनुराधपुर) is a major city in Sri Lanka. It is the capital city of North Central Province, Sri Lanka and the capital of Anuradhapura District. Anuradhapura is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, famous for its well-preserved ruins of an ancient Sri Lankan civilization.

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Arabs (अरब) are a population inhabiting the Arab world. They primarily live in the Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and western Indian Ocean islands.

आरब देश (AS, p.69): वराहमिहिर की वृहत्संहिता 14, 17 में अरब का आरब नाम से उल्लेख है। बहिस्तां अभिलेख में अरब के प्राचीन नाम 'अरबय' का उल्लेख है।

वनायु (AS, p.832) नामक स्थान का उल्लेख महाकवि कालिदास ने अपने महाकाव्य 'रघुवंश' में किया है- 'दीर्घेष्वमी नियमिता: पटमंडपेषु निद्रांविहाय वनजाक्ष वनायुदेश्या: वक्त्रोष्मणा मलिनयन्ति पुरोगतानि, लेह्यानि सैंधवशिला शकलानि वाहां।' (रघुवंश, 5, 73) कालिदास ने उपरोक्त संदर्भ में वनायु प्रदेश के घोड़ों का उल्लेख किया है। कोशकार हलायुध ने ‘पारसीका वनायुजाः’ कहकर वनायु को फ़ारस या ईरान माना है। कुछ विद्धानों के मत में वनायु अरब देश का प्राचीन भारतीय नाम है।

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Arakan (अराकान) is a historic coastal region in Southeast Asia. The region now forms the Rakhine State in Myanmar, earlier Burma.

Early Arab traders were familiar with the Indian name of Rohang as the name of Arakan. Burmese tradition holds the name of the region to be Rakhaing.

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Arishta (अरिष्ट) is a mountain in Sri Lanka mentioned by Panini and in Ramayana. Aritthaparvata (अरिट्ठपर्वत) is mentioned by Mahavansha as a mountain in Sri Lanka. The Sanskrit equivalent of Arittha is Arishta (अरिष्ट) and is mentioned in Mahabharata. Arishtapura (अरिष्टपुर) is the modern Shorkot town located in the Jhang district of Punjab (Pakistan).

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Ashokavanika (अशोकवनिका) was a garden in Lanka, that was located in the Kingdom of the Rakshasa king, Ravana, as mentioned in the Vishnu Purana and Hindu epic, Ramayana of Valmiki, and all subsequent versions, including the Ramacharitamanas written by Tulsidas, where it finds mention in the Sundar Kand.

अशोकवनिका को अशोकवाटिका भी कहा जाता है। वाल्मीकि रामायण के अनुसार लंका में स्थित एक सुंदर उद्यान था जिसमें रावण ने सीता को बंदी बनाकर रखा था.

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Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. According to the most widely accepted version of its origin, the Thai state based at Ayutthaya in the valley of the Chao Phraya River rose from the earlier, nearby Lavo Kingdom (at that time, still under the control of the Khmer Empire) and Suvarnabhumi.

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Bhavapura (भवपुर) was an ancient city in Cambodia founded by Indian Rulers, who ruled in Kambuja for about 1300 years. It was capital of the Chenla state.

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Borneo (बोर्नियो) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. The island is politically divided among three countries: Malaysia and Brunei in the north, and Indonesia to the south. The island is known by many names. Internationally it is known as Borneo, after Brunei. The name Brunei possibly derives from the Sanskrit word váruṇa (वरुण), meaning either "water" or Varuna.

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Burma (बर्मा), also known as Myanmar (म्यांमार), is a country in Southeast Asia. Its capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city and former capital is Yangon (Rangoon) (रंगून). In 1989, the military government officially changed the English translations of many names dating back to Burma's colonial period or earlier, including that of the country itself: "Burma" became "Myanmar".

Brahma Desha (ब्रह्मदेश) was hthe ancient Indian name of Burma specially southern Burma derived from Brahma. It was known as Suvarnabhumi (सुवर्णभूमि) in Buddhist literature. Historians opine that Indian civilization had reached Burma much before Christian era.

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Cambodia (कम्बोडिया) is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.

The "Kingdom of Cambodia" is the official English name of the country. The English "Cambodia" is an anglicisation of the French "Cambodge", which in turn is the French transliteration of the Khmer. The Khmer endonym Kampuchea derives from the Sanskrit name Kambojadeśa (कम्बोजदेश), the country of Kamboja

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Champa (Hindi:चम्पा , Vietnamese: Chăm Pa) was a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is today central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd century AD before being absorbed and annexed by Vietnamese Emperor Minh Mạng in AD 1832.

चंपापुर (हिंद-चीन): प्राचीन भारतीय उपनिवेश चंपा में वर्तमान अनाम का अधिकांश भाग सम्मिलित था. यह लोग संभवतः भारत की चंपानगरी के निवासी थे. 15वीं शती तक यहां के निवासी पूर्ण रूप से भारतीय संस्कृति एवं सभ्यता के प्रभाव में थे. इस शती अनामियों ने चंपा को जीतकर वहां अपना राज्य स्थापित कर लिया और भारतीय उपनिवेश की प्राचीन परंपरा को समाप्त कर दिया. चंपा का सर्वप्रथम भारतीय राजा श्रीमान था जिसका चीन के इतिहास में भी उल्लेख मिलता है. चंपापुरी के वर्तमान अवशेषों में यहां के प्राचीन भारतीय धर्म तथा संस्कृति की सुंदर झलक मिलती है.

Read more at Champa Vietnam