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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: archaeological site of the ancient Indian subcontinent, at Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Takshashila”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bhir Mound and Taxila Cantonment Junction railway station.
Bhir Mound
Nature reserve
Photo: Dawoodmajoka, Public domain.
The Bhir Mound is an archaeological site in Taxila in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It contains some of the oldest ruins of Ancient Taxila, dated to sometime around the period 800–525 BC as its earliest layers bear "grooved" Red Burnished Ware, the Bhir Mound, along with several other nearby excavations, form part of the Ruins of Taxila – inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Taxila Cantonment Junction railway station
Railway station
Taxila Cantonment Junction Railway Station is located in Taxila cantonment area near Taxila, Rawalpindi district of Punjab province, Pakistan. It serves as a junction for Havelian.
Wah Cantonment railway station
Railway station
Wah Cantonment Railway Station is located in Wah cantonment area near Wah town, Rawalpindi district of Punjab province of the Pakistan.
Taxila
- Category: archaeological site
- Location: Rawalpindi District, Northern Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Taxila” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ታክሲላ”
- Arabic: “تاكسيلا”
- Arabic: “تاكشاشيلا”
- Arabic: “تيكسلا”
- Armenian: “Թաքշաիլա”
- Armenian: “Թաքսիլա”
- Assamese: “তক্ষশিলা”
- Assamese: “তক্ষশীলা”
- Basque: “Taksila”
- Basque: “Taxila”
- Belarusian: “Таксіла”
- Bengali: “তক্ষশীলা”
- Bulgarian: “Таксила”
- Burmese: “တက္ကသီလာ”
- Catalan: “Tàxila”
- Chinese: “呾叉始罗”
- Chinese: “呾叉始羅”
- Chinese: “塔克西拉”
- Chinese: “塔卡斯拉”
- Chinese: “怛叉始罗”
- Croatian: “Taksila”
- Croatian: “Taxila”
- Czech: “Takkasilá”
- Czech: “Taksasíla”
- Czech: “Takšašila”
- Czech: “Takšašíla”
- Czech: “Taksila”
- Czech: “Taxila”
- Danish: “Taxila”
- Dutch: “Taxila”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكسيلا”
- Esperanto: “Taksila”
- Esperanto: “Taksilo”
- Finnish: “Taksila”
- Finnish: “Taxila”
- French: “Takshashîlâ”
- French: “Taxila”
- Galician: “Taxila”
- Georgian: “ტაქსილა”
- German: “Taxila”
- Goan Konkani: “तक्षशिला”
- Greek: “Ταξάσιλα”
- Greek: “Ταξίλα”
- Greek: “Τάξιλα”
- Gujarati: “તક્ષશિલા”
- Hebrew: “תכסילא”
- Hindi: “तक्षशिला”
- Hindi: “तक्षशील”
- Hindi: “तक्षिला”
- Hindi: “विक्रमसीला”
- Hungarian: “Takszila”
- Indonesian: “Taxila”
- Italian: “Takshashila”
- Italian: “Tassila”
- Italian: “Taxila”
- Japanese: “タキシラ”
- Japanese: “タクシラ”
- Kannada: “ತಕ್ಷಶಿಲಾ”
- Kazakh: “Taksïla”
- Kazakh: “Таксила”
- Kazakh: “تاكسىيلا”
- Korean: “탁실라”
- Latvian: “Taksila”
- Literary Chinese: “呾叉始羅”
- Lithuanian: “Taksila”
- Maithili: “तक्षशिला”
- Malayalam: “Taxila”
- Malayalam: “Thakshasila university”
- Malayalam: “തക്ഷശില സർവകലാശാല”
- Malayalam: “തക്ഷശില”
- Maltese: “Taxila”
- Marathi: “तक्षशिला”
- Marathi: “तक्षशीला”
- Nepali: “तक्षशिला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taxila”
- Norwegian: “Taxila”
- Ossetian: “Таксилæ”
- Ossetian: “Такшашилæ”
- Panjabi: “ٹيکسلا”
- Panjabi: “ਤਕਸ਼ਿਲਾ”
- Panjabi: “ਤੇਕ੍ਸਿਲਾ”
- Persian: “تاکسیلا”
- Persian: “تکسیلا”
- Persian: “تکسیله”
- Persian: “تکششیلا”
- Polish: “Sirkap”
- Polish: “Sirsukh”
- Polish: “Taksasila”
- Polish: “Taksila”
- Polish: “Taxila”
- Portuguese: “Takshashila”
- Portuguese: “Takshishila”
- Portuguese: “Takshisila”
- Portuguese: “Taxila”
- Pushto: “تاکسيلا”
- Pushto: “ټاکسيلا”
- Pushto: “ټکسيلا”
- Pushto: “ټېکسلا”
- Romanian: “Taxila”
- Russian: “Таксила”
- Russian: “Такшашила”
- Sanskrit: “तक्षशिला”
- Sanskrit: “तक्षशिलाविश्वविद्यालयः”
- Saraiki: “ٹیکسلا”
- Scots: “Taxila”
- Serbian: “Таксила”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taksila”
- Sindhi: “ٽيڪسيلا”
- Sinhala: “තක්ෂිලා”
- Slovak: “Taxila”
- Slovenian: “Taksila”
- Slovenian: “Taxila”
- Spanish: “Takashila”
- Spanish: “Takhasila”
- Spanish: “Taksasila”
- Spanish: “Takshashila”
- Spanish: “Takshasila”
- Spanish: “Takshila”
- Spanish: “Takshisila”
- Spanish: “Taksila”
- Spanish: “Taxila”
- Spanish: “Taxilla”
- Swedish: “Taxila”
- Tamil: “தக்சசீலா”
- Tatar: “Борынгы Таксила каласы археологик аланы”
- Telugu: “తక్షశిల విశ్వవిద్యాలయం”
- Telugu: “తక్షశిల”
- Thai: “ตักกสิลา”
- Thai: “ตักศิลา”
- Thai: “ตักสิลา”
- 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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