Mahastan
Mahasthangarh is the earliest urban archaeological sites discovered thus far in Bangladesh. The village Mahasthan in Shibganj upazila of Bogra District contains the remains of an ancient city which was called Pundranagara or Paundravardhanapura in the territory of Pundravardhana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,200 residents
- Description: Archaeological site of Bangladesh
- Also known as: “Mahasthangarh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Govinda Bhita and Pundranagar.
Pundranagar
Archaeological site
Pundranagar in Paundrabhukti was the most important city in the ancient Bengal region, now identified with the current site of Mahasthan, located in Bogra, Bangladesh.
Mahastan
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Roynagar, Shibganj Upazila, Bogra District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Assamese to Ukrainian—“Mahastan” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “মহাস্থানগড়”
- Bengali: “মহাস্থান গড়”
- Bengali: “মহাস্থান”
- Bengali: “মহাস্থানগড়”
- Bishnupriya: “মহাস্থানগড়”
- Chinese: “莫霍斯坦戈尔”
- Chinese: “莫霍斯坦戈爾”
- Chinese: “莫霍斯坦戈爾及其周邊地區”
- Esperanto: “Mahasthangarh”
- French: “Mahasthangarh”
- Hebrew: “פונדרנאגארה”
- Hindi: “महास्थानगढ़”
- Igbo: “Mahasthangarh”
- Indonesian: “Mahasthangarh”
- Japanese: “マハースターンガール”
- Japanese: “モハスタンゴル”
- Persian: “مهانستانگر”
- Russian: “Махастан”
- Tamil: “மகாஸ்தங்கர்”
- Tatar: “Махастангарх археологик аланы”
- Turkish: “Mahasthangarh”
- Ukrainian: “Магастханґарг”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mahasthangarh and Mahāsthān.
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