History of Karachi
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 115 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5149-5865-8
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The area of Karachi (Urdu: ????? ??????), in Sindh, Pakistan was known to the ancient Greeks by many names: Krokola, where Alexander the Great camped in Sindh to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus valley; 'Morontobara' port (probably the modern Manora Island near the Karachi harbor), from where Alexander's admiral Nearchus sailed for back home; and Barbarikon, a sea port of the Indo-Greek Bactrian kingdom. The Arabs knew it as the port of Debal, from where Muhammad Bin Qasim led his conquering force into Sindh (the western corner of South Asia) in AD 712. According to the British historian Eliot, parts of district of Karachi and the island of Manora constituted the city of Debal. Lahari Bandar or Lari Bandar succeeded Debal as a major port of the Indus it was located close to Bhambore, in modern Karachi. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом,...