📍 Capital / fort
Taxila
c. 1,000 BCE – c. 500 CE
Centre of learning in Gandhara.
👑 Capital of 3 kingdoms and empires · 2 events here
The large dot is this place; small dots are places within 80 km.
Through time
👑 Ruled from here
c. 200 BCE – c. 10 CEIndo-Greek KingdomsCapital: Sagala / Taxilac. 110 BCE – c. 80 CEIndo-Scythian (Saka) KingdomsCapital: Taxila / Mathurac. 19 CE – c. 100 CEIndo-Parthian KingdomCapital: Taxila
What happened here within 25 km
- c. 518 BCE ⚔ Achaemenid Persia annexes Gandhara · Achaemenid Gandhara & Hindush
- 1988 Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister · Islamic Republic of Pakistan