Taxila
The ancient settlement of Taxila in the western outskirts of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad is a UNESCO World Heritage Site; it is considered one of the most important archaeological sites of South Asia, and for good reason.
- Type: Locality
- Description: archaeological site of the ancient Indian subcontinent, at Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Mint of Taxila”, “Sirkap”, “Sirsukh”, “Takashila”, “Takhasila”, “Takkasilá”, “Taksasila”, “Taksasíla”, “Takšašila”, “Takshashila”, “Takshashîlâ”, “Takshasila”, “Takshila”, “Takshishila”, “Takshisila”, “Taksilo”, “Tassila”, “Taxilla”, “Thakshasila university”, “Ταξάσιλα”, “Ταξίλα”, “Такшашилæ”, “Такшашила”, “Թաքշաիլա”, “تاكشاشيلا”, “تاکسيلا”, “تکسیله”, “تکششیلا”, “تيكسلا”, “ټاکسيلا”, “ټېکسلا”, “तक्षशील”, “तक्षशीला”, “तक्षिला”, “ਤੇਕ੍ਸਿਲਾ”, “తక్షశిల విశ్వవిద్యాలయం”, “തക്ഷശില സർവകലാശാല”, “ตักกสิลา”, “ตักสิลา”, “タクシラ”, “呾叉始罗”, and “怛叉始罗”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Taxila and Wah Cantonment railway station.
Taxila
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Rawalpindi District, Northern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.7373° or 33° 44′ 14″ north
Longitude
72.8006° or 72° 48′ 2″ east
Elevation
513 metres (1,683 feet)
Open location code
8J5JPRP2+W7
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Taxila” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ታክሲላ”
- Arabic: “تاكسيلا”
- Armenian: “Թաքսիլա”
- Assamese: “তক্ষশিলা”
- Assamese: “তক্ষশীলা”
- Basque: “Taksila”
- Belarusian: “Таксіла”
- Bengali: “তক্ষশীলা”
- Bulgarian: “Таксила”
- Burmese: “တက္ကသီလာ”
- Catalan: “Tàxila”
- Central Kurdish: “تەکسیلا”
- Chinese: “塔克西拉”
- Croatian: “Taksila”
- Czech: “Takšašíla”
- Czech: “Taxila”
- Danish: “Taxila”
- Dutch: “Taxila”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكسيلا”
- Esperanto: “Taksila”
- Finnish: “Taksila”
- French: “Taxila”
- Galician: “Taxila”
- Georgian: “ტაქსილა”
- German: “Taxila”
- Goan Konkani: “तक्षशिला”
- Greek: “Τάξιλα”
- Gujarati: “તક્ષશિલા”
- Hebrew: “תכסילא”
- Hindi: “तक्षशिला”
- Hindi: “विक्रमसीला”
- Hungarian: “Takszila”
- Indonesian: “Taxila”
- Italian: “Taxila”
- Japanese: “タキシラ”
- Kannada: “ತಕ್ಷಶಿಲಾ”
- Kazakh: “Taksïla”
- Kazakh: “Таксила”
- Kazakh: “تاكسىيلا”
- Korean: “탁실라”
- Latvian: “Taksila”
- Literary Chinese: “呾叉始羅”
- Lithuanian: “Taksila”
- Maithili: “तक्षशिला”
- Malayalam: “തക്ഷശില”
- Maltese: “Taxila”
- Marathi: “तक्षशिला”
- Nepali: “तक्षशिला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taxila”
- Norwegian: “Taxila”
- Ossetian: “Таксилæ”
- Panjabi: “ٹيکسلا”
- Panjabi: “ਤਕਸ਼ਿਲਾ”
- Persian: “تاکسیلا”
- Persian: “تکسیلا”
- Polish: “Taksila”
- Portuguese: “Taxila”
- Pushto: “ټکسيلا”
- Romanian: “Taxila”
- Russian: “Таксила”
- Sanskrit: “तक्षशिला”
- Sanskrit: “तक्षशिलाविश्वविद्यालयः”
- Saraiki: “ٹیکسلا”
- Scots: “Taxila”
- Serbian: “Таксила”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taksila”
- Sindhi: “ٽيڪسيلا”
- Sinhala: “තක්ෂිලා”
- Slovak: “Taxila”
- Slovenian: “Taksila”
- Slovenian: “Taxila”
- Spanish: “Taxila”
- Swedish: “Taxila”
- Tamil: “தக்சசீலா”
- Tatar: “Борынгы Таксила каласы археологик аланы”
- Telugu: “తక్షశిల”
- Thai: “ตักศิลา”
- Turkish: “Taksila”
- Turkish: “Taxila”
- Ukrainian: “Таксила”
- Urdu: “ٹیکسلا”
- Uzbek: “Taksila”
- Vietnamese: “Taxila”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹیکسلا، پنجاب”
- Yue Chinese: “塔卡斯拉”
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