Magadha
Magadha was a region and kingdom in ancient India, based in the eastern Ganges Plain. It was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the second urbanisation period.
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Magadha
- Type: historical country
- Description: kingdom in ancient India
- Also known as: “Đế quốc Magadha”, “Imperio Magadha”, “Kekaisaran Magadha”, “Ma Kiệt Đà”, “Ma-kiệt-đà”, “Magadh”, “Magadha Empire”, “Magadha kingdom”, “Magadha Királyság”, “Magadhan Empire”, “Magadhariket”, “Magadhská říše”, “Magadhsko”, “Maghada”, “Período Magadha”, “Reino de Magadha”, “Reino de Maghada”, “Reis de Magadha”, “Royaume de Magadha”, “Vương quốc Ma-kiệt-đà”, “मगध जनपद”, “मगधदॆश:”, “मगह”, “మగధ”, “മഗധ സാമ്രാജ്യം”, “මගධ - නන්ද - පළමු රජ පෙළපත”, “마가다 왕국”, “마가다 제국”, “마가다국”, “마갈타”, “マガタ”, “マガダ”, “マガダ帝国の年表”, “摩伽陀”, “摩伽陀國”, “摩揭陀国”, “摩揭陀王國”, and “摩竭陀”
- Categories: kingdom, Mahajanapada, and people
- Location: Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
25.611° or 25° 36′ 40″ north
Longitude of center
85.144° or 85° 8′ 38″ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Magadha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مملكة ماجادها”
- Assamese: “প্ৰাচীন ভাৰতীয় ৰাজ্য”
- Assamese: “মগধ”
- Asturian: “Magadha”
- Bashkir: “Магадха”
- Basque: “Magadha”
- Belarusian: “Магадга”
- Belarusian: “Магадха”
- Bengali: “মগধ”
- Bhojpuri: “मगध”
- Bulgarian: “Магадха”
- Burmese: “မဂဓတိုင်း”
- Catalan: “Magadha”
- Chechen: “Магадха”
- Chinese: “摩揭陀”
- Croatian: “Magadha”
- Czech: “Magadha”
- Dutch: “Magadha”
- Esperanto: “Magadho”
- Esperanto: “Magado”
- Finnish: “Magadha”
- French: “Magadha”
- French: “royaume de Magadha”
- Galician: “Magadha”
- Georgian: “მაგადჰა”
- German: “Magadha”
- Greek: “Μαγκάντα”
- Hebrew: “מאגאדה”
- Hebrew: “מגדהה”
- Hindi: “मगध महाजनपद”
- Hungarian: “Magadha”
- Indonesian: “Kerajaan Magadha”
- Indonesian: “Magadha”
- Italian: “Impero Magadha”
- Italian: “Regno Magadha”
- Japanese: “マガダ国”
- Kannada: “ಮಗಧ”
- Korean: “마가다”
- Latvian: “Magadha”
- Lithuanian: “Magadha”
- Macedonian: “Магада”
- Magahi: “मगध”
- Maithili: “मगध”
- Malay: “Magadha”
- Malayalam: “മഗധ”
- Manchu: “ᠮᠣ ᡤᡳᠶᠠ ᡨᠣ ᡤᡠᠸᡝ ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ”
- Marathi: “मगध साम्राज्य”
- Marathi: “मगध”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Magadha”
- Mingrelian: “მაგადჰა”
- Nepali: “मगध”
- Newari: “मगध”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Magadha”
- Norwegian: “Magadha”
- Pali: “मगधरट्ठो”
- Panjabi: “ਮਗਧ”
- Persian: “پادشاهی مگادا”
- Persian: “ماگدها”
- Polish: “Magadha”
- Portuguese: “Magadha”
- Portuguese: “Reino de Mágada”
- Romanian: “Magadha”
- Russian: “Магадха”
- Sanskrit: “मगधः”
- Serbian: “Магада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Magadha”
- Sinhala: “මගධ”
- Slovenian: “Magadha”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماگدها”
- Spanish: “Magadha”
- Swedish: “Magadha”
- Swiss German: “Magadha”
- Swiss German: “S Riich vo Magadha”
- Tamil: “மகத நாடு”
- Telugu: “మగధ సామ్రాజ్యం”
- Telugu: “మగధ సామ్రాజ్యము”
- Thai: “แคว้นมคธ”
- Tibetan: “མ་ག་དྷ་”
- Turkish: “Magadha Krallığı”
- Ukrainian: “Маґадга”
- Urdu: “سلطنت مگدھ”
- Urdu: “مگدھ مہا جن پد”
- Uzbek: “Magadha”
- Venetian: “Regno Magadha”
- Vietnamese: “Magadha”
- Western Panjabi: “مگدھ مہاجنپد”
- Western Panjabi: “مگدھ”
- Wu Chinese: “摩揭陀”
- Yue Chinese: “摩揭陀”
- “मगध”
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