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Punjab   /pəndʒˈɑb/  /pˈəndʒˌæb/   Listen
Punjab

noun
1.
A historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan.





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"Punjab" Quotes from Famous Books



... and even at Cabul. These, so far as yet known, commence with the third of the Seleucidae, and run on for many centuries, the inscriptions showing that the Greek characters were used in the provinces of Cabul and the Punjab even so late as the fourth century A.D. The consideration of these coins of the Graeco-Persian empire of the Seleucidae naturally leads us to ...
— On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art • James Mactear
... of "Tales from the Punjab," "On the Face of the Waters," "A Prince of Dreamers," and other novels and short stories, most of which deal with life ...
— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various
... born 1827. Served in the Punjab but left in 1854 to explore Somaliland. Discovered Lake Tanganyika with Burton, and Lake Victoria independently. Was, with Grant, the first European to cross equatorial ...
— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke


Words linked to "Punjab" :   geographic area, Republic of India, geographic region, geographical region, geographical area, Pakistan, West Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Bharat, India


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