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How common are the following activities historically? [closed]
In present day India the ruling party has started to rename the cities by claiming to take them to their origins. It has been discussed here, here and here. Primarily the cities with Muslim Names for ...
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Is the name of Askandra Village, Rajasthan related to Alexander the Great?
I did a wiki walk and ended up on this site:
http://www.livius.org/articles/place/alexandria-on-the-acesines/
Which contains this line:
"The town flourished; in Buddhist texts, it is called Askandra."...
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